Val Verde Regional Medical Center (VVRMC) appears to have been the victim of a ransomware attack involving LockBit. According to LockBit, Val Verde Memorial Hospital was compromised and 96,000 patient records were exfiltrated. The listing was added to the leak site on March 16, with LockBit noting that the patient records had the following table…
Category: Breach Incidents
Cybercriminal Connected to Multimillion Dollar Ransomware Attacks Sentenced for Online Fraud Schemes
An Estonian man was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for his years-long role in furthering and facilitating computer intrusions, the movement of fraudulently obtained goods and funds, and the monetization of stolen financial account information. He also participated in ransomware attacks causing over $53 million in losses and was ordered to pay over…
Update on Griggsville-Perry School District ransomware incident
In January, the Griggsville-Perry School District in Illinois announced it had been hit with a ransomware attack. Now, two months later, Vice Society threat actors have added the district to their leak site and dumped files that they had infiltrated. Inspection of the more than 3,000 files in the data dump revealed that most of…
Russian National Indicted in East Texas for Cyber Hacking Enterprise
Press release: TYLER, Texas –A 23-year-old Russian man has been indicted in the Eastern District of Texas for offenses related to operating a cyber-criminal marketplace that sold thousands of stolen login credentials, personal identifiable information, and authentication tools, announced Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston. Igor Dekhtyarchuk, a resident and national of the…
Okta’s response to Lapsus$’s claimed hack has people asking, “Why didn’t you tell us in January?”
Yesterday was not a great day for Okta. Their CSO, David Bradbury, issued a statement responding to Lapsus$’s claimed hack, but his statement led to a counter-response by Lapsus$ and even more critically, perhaps, people started asking why, if Okta knew about something in January, they had not disclosed it then. First, here’s Bradbury’s statement:…
Japanese medical online consultation site leaking consumer-submitted images of symptoms
After multiple unsuccessful attempts to get a popular Japanese medical online consultation site to secure a misconfigured bucket, researchers at SafetyDetectives have decided to publicly disclose the leak. Doctors Me provides customers with on-demand access to professional medical advice. People can sign up for a monthly unlimited access plan (for less than $3.00 per month)…