In February 2022, NFL’s San Francisco 49ers confirmed a ransomware attack by BlackByte. This week they started mailing notification letters to more than 20,000 people. * * * In a bizarre incident, hackers broke into the ride-hailing service provider Yandex Taxi’s software and sent dozens of cars to the same location, resulting in a traffic…
Category: Breach Incidents
Medical billing service in Florida one of the latest victims of ransomware attacks
Add NCG Medical to business associates who a ransomware attack has compromised. The medical billing service in Florida was added to the Hive ransomware group’s leak site on August 31, with Hive claiming that they encrypted NCG’s files on August 19. The 12-day gap between encryption and publicly revealing the attack is a relatively short…
JP: Minamiboso City school affairs network hit by ransomware in July; still not fully recovered
It is not only schools in the US and the UK that have been affected by ransomware. A report from Minamiboso City in the Shiba Prefecture of Japan announced that the network used by the city’s primary and secondary schools had been attacked by ransomware. On July 19, the Minamiboso City Board of Education confirmed…
TH: Major Cineplex and Major Development PCL hit by DESORDEN
DESORDEN has hit another big business in Thailand. This time it is the largest cinema chain and its subsidiary property development company. As DESORDEN informs DataBreaches, the Major Development PCL was breached during the first week of August and contacted by DESORDEN on August 17. “The management refused to respond and we attacked their main…
EmergeOrtho notifying 75,200 patients about ransomware incident
EmergeOrtho in North Carolina has started sending notification letters to patients whose protected health information may have been accessed during a ransomware attack in May. According to a notification template seen by DataBreaches, EmergeOrtho discovered and blocked a ransomware attack on May 18. Their letter does not specifically state whether any files were encrypted, and…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Dominican Republic: The Instituto Agrario Dominicano (IAD) The IAD was reportedly hit by Quantum ransomware. According to local media reporting, the attack occurred on August 18. “They ask for more than 600 thousand dollars. We were affected by four physical servers and eight virtual servers; virtually all servers,” IAD Director of Technology Walixson Amaury Nuñez…