By July 1, word was circulating that the Baton Rouge General Medical Center in Louisiana had been hit by ransomware. A copy of the ransom note shared with DataBreaches pointed clearly to the Hive group, but when asked about it, Hive’s spokesperson claimed that DataBreaches had “incorrect info.” Since then, the medical center has not…
Category: Breach Incidents
A new group on the ransomware scene? BianLian claims to have hacked Mooresville Schools
Seen on Twitter: A new #ransomware group named #BianLian claims to have hacked #Mooresville Schools (@MrsvlPioneers), a public school district in Indiana, ??. The group claims to have stolen ~4,200 student records containing phone numbers, email addresses, and social security numbers… pic.twitter.com/QWECxn62L9 — BetterCyber (@_bettercyber_) July 11, 2022 BianLian seems to be using a strategy…
Tenet Healthcare faces lawsuit after Baptist Health System data breach affects 1.2 million patients
Catherine Martin reports: A Texas man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and its affiliate Baptist Health System after the companies experienced a data breach this year that affected more than a million patients. The lawsuit was filed July 5 in Dallas County on behalf of Troy Contreras, one of about 1.2…
Tel Aviv municipality website targeted in latest Iraqi cyberattack against Israeli institutions
PressTV in Iraq reports: A group of hackers based in Iraq says they have managed to break into the Tel Aviv municipality website and take it down, a week after a similar cyberattack on Israeli NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd., which is responsible for the design and construction of a mass transit system in…
Robinhood settles data breach class action for $20M
Lauren Silva and Abraham Jewett report a settlement in Robinhood class-action litigation. Robinhood agreed to pay as much as $20 million to resolve claims the stock trading platform failed to prevent a 2020 data breach. The settlement will provide thousands of hacked Robinhood customers with both compensation and two years of credit monitoring and identity…
BR-Prefeitura Municipal de Itapemirim suffered a cyber attack
In a statement on its Facebook page, the Prefeitura Municipal de Itapermirim in Brazil alerted people that it had been the victim of a cyberattack on July 10 and ransom has been demanded: The following is a machine translation of their Facebook statement: The Municipal Prefecture of Itapemirim goes public to inform that the Municipality’s…