Urban Resource Institute in New York City provides shelter and services to victims of domestic abuse, homeless people, and individuals with developmental disabilities. On May 20, 2020, they were the victim of an attack on employees’ email accounts. Unusual network activity was first noticed on July 23, 2020, but it wasn’t until October, 2020 that…
Category: Breach Incidents
Community Medical Centers notifying 656,047 patients of ransomware incident
Community Medical Centers, Inc. (“CMC”) is a non-profit community health center serving San Joaquin, Solano, and Yolo counties in Northern California. On October 10, 2021, they shut down many of their systems after detecting unusual activity on the network. In their notification to California’s Attorney General, they reported that they found evidence that indicated unauthorized…
Shoot-the-Messenger, Monday edition: ActMobile threatens researcher whose only sin was trying to let them know they are leaking data
On October 12, researcher Bob Diachenko tweeted: Since Fri I’ve been trying to get in touch with someone from ActMobile [@ActMobile] to responsibly alert that their VPN userbase (45M+) info (email, pwd, IPs, devices etc) is exposed to public but no luck. Incl. but not limited to @DashVPN, https://t.co/sdN3byHNcJ. Anyone? — Bob Diachenko (@MayhemDayOne) October…
WA: Sea Mar Community Health Centers discloses breach that began last year
Sea Mar Community Health Centers in Washington state is a community-based organization that describes itself as being committed to providing quality and comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington state. On some exact date that is unknown to DataBreaches.net, threat actors gained access to…
Samaritan Daytop Village discloses breach
Samaritan Daytop Village, Inc. (“SDV”) has disclosed a breach that they first discovered on September 22. The not-for-profit, which started 60 years ago as an outpatient drug treatment services provider but expanded its scope, reports that they could not be sure whether data was actually viewed, exfiltrated, neither, or both. It is all still under…
Blue Shield of California insurance broker victim of ransomware attack
Blue Shield of California has disclosed that a ransomware attack on an insurance broker, Team Alvarez Insurance Services, has impacted 2,858 Blue Shield members’ information including names and one or more of the following: health insurance information, health plan member ID number, date of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and physical addresses. No Blue Shield…