Yesterday, Professional Business Systems, Inc. d/b/a Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions and PBS Medcode Corp., a medical management company that processes data for health care providers, issued a press release about an incident that occurred last year. From their release: What Happened? On December 30, 2020, We learned that an unauthorized actor who attempted to deploy…
Category: Breach Incidents
NY: “Grief” claims to have breached Rehabilitation Support Services
A rehabilitation and support services agency that provides services to more than 3,000 individuals with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders each year has been the victim of a cyberattack by threat actors call themselves “Grief.” Rehabilitation Support Services, Inc. (RSS) operates in 13 upstate New York counties through 5 service divisions. According to their web…
Canadian non-profit hit by malware gets help — from the threat actor
Good Shepherd Centres in Canada recently disclosed a breach involving protected health information that occurred on September, 27, 2020. On June 29, Good Shepherd posted a statement that explains that it had been the victim of an attempt to shut down its systems, but that the attacker(s) “quickly facilitated restoration after realizing that Good Shepherd…
Insurer Dominion National settles for $2 million in data breach lawsuit
Ax Sharma reports a settlement in litigation over a breach that was disclosed in 2019 but presumably began in 2010. Dominion National, Virginia-based insurance provider of dental and vision health benefits has reached settlement in the class action lawsuit concerning the decade-old data breach that exposed sensitive customer information of over 2.9 million patients. Although…
Online learning provider New Skills Academy alerts users of data breach
Waqas reports: New Skills Academy, a major online learning provider based in Hertford, United Kingdom has suffered a data breach in which account information of its customers has been exposed to unauthorized sources. According to New Skills Academy’s data breach notification email seen by Hackread.com, the number of victims impacted by the breach is yet…
Cybersecurity: Hacker Gets Thousands of Confidential Data on LimeVPN Users
Alec G. reports: One hacker has gotten his hands on all the LimeVPN provider’s users and is currently selling them on a popular hacker forum. What Went Down? First to report the incident was PrivacySharks, the supposed no-logs VPN service that has encountered a massive data breach that puts 69,400 users at risk. Unfortunately, there was…