Australian Clinical Labs said on Thursday its Medlab Pathology business suffered a data breach that affected health records and credit card information of about 223,000 patients and staff. This is the latest in a series of hacks to rock corporate Australia, after the country’s biggest health insurer Medibank and No. 2 telco Optus were also…
Category: Breach Incidents
Davenport Community Schools’ “server issues” were Karakurt issues
Months after CISA issued an alert about Karakurt, Davenport Community Schools in Iowa reported some “server issues.” On September 13, Schools Superintendent TJ Schneckloth issued a statement regarding what had been described as “server repairs” after the district went without internet for roughly a week back in September. That statement, updated on October 4, acknowledged…
“Every Rhode Islander Should be Concerned,” Says ACLU’s Brown on RIPTA Data Breach Lawsuit
GoLocalProv reports: Cooperating attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU) on Tuesday filed a class-action lawsuit against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and UnitedHealthcare New England (UHC) over an August 2021 data breach at RIPTA that compromised the Social Security numbers and other personal and health care information of…
Paying off hackers is common, says top Australian govt cybersecurity firm
Byron Kaye reports: Corporate insurers routinely pay hackers a ransom for the return of stolen customer data, a top Australian government cybersecurity provider said on Tuesday (Oct 25), as the country’s biggest health insurer revealed the growing scale of a recent breach. The claim from Macquarie Telecom Group, which runs cybersecurity for 42 per cent…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
AR: Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff computer system hit by ransomware In developing news, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces suffered a computer attack that caused them to disconnect servers from the internet as a preventive measure. Last night, military authorities confirmed the presence of “a malicious virus” in the networks…
French maternity hospital hit by ransomware attack by Vice Society; attackers claim to have 150 GB of files
Le Journal du Dimanche reports that a private maternity hospital in France, Hôpital Pierre Rouquès – Les Bluets was the victim of a cyberattack by Vice Society on October 9. A notice on the hospital’s home page alerts people to the attack and that their email system does not work. [Note: there is also a…