The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) has suffered a cybersecurity breach that has caused school closures for the past two days. The incident was first announced on June 15 as an “IT outage:” 6/15/2021 8:25 AM EDT UMass Lowell, including the Haverhill campus, is closed on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 due to an IT…
Category: Breach Incidents
SCOOP: UnitingCare paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to REvil for decryption key and deletion of files
On April 25, UnitingCare Queensland (UCQ) was the victim of a ransomware attack that impacted multiple Queensland hospitals and aged care centres. The next day, they posted a notice on their web site informing people as to what was happening and its impact. And on May 5, they posted a second update where they revealed…
CO: Cedaredge company fined for not securing customer data
The Daily Sentinel reports: A Cedaredge-based mobile home management company has been fined $25,000 for failing to secure its customers data. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office announced the fine and an agreement for Impact MHC to implement new data security measures after a 2018 data breach. According to a news release, the breach exposed sensitive…
Healthcare entities in Saudi Arabia, Illinois, and Mississippi fall prey to Xing Team
Note: updates to the breaches included in this report appear below the original post. Some threat actors have gained a lot of notoriety while others are lesser known. In this article, DataBreaches.net reports on a relatively unknown group that has been hitting the healthcare sector, “Xing Team.” Like other groups, Xing maintains a dedicated leak…
Fr: Camaïeu retailer and municipality of Pont-Saint-Esprit by security incidents
Marc Grosclaude of La Voix du Nord reports that retailer Camaïeu was hit by a cyberattack that has left it with stocks running low and difficulty in replenishing stock with computer systems affected. Quotes below are machine translations from the original French. “We don’t really know what’s going on,” admits a saleswoman from a…
NY: Arnoff Moving & Storage data breach revealed customer information: What we know
Saba Ali reports: Arnoff Moving & Storage customers may have had their data stolen by hackers as part of a breach, the company said. The company could not say how many customers may have been impacted, how long ago the data may be from, or if the breach was limited to its regional Mid Hudson…