AllyAlign Health (AAH), a Medicare Advantage special needs plan administrator, recently notified 76,348 members and providers of an attempted ransomware attack. But how successful were the threat actors? And what could the Virginia firm figure out and what couldn’t they figure out based on their investigation? According to AAH’s notification letter, the attack occurred on…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK Reputation Risk Intelligence Company Left 30TB Server Exposed
WizCase researchers recently revealed that a U.K. analytics firm, Polecat, left 30TB of data and billions of records exposed on an elasticsearch server that was not secured. WizCase reports: Polecat, which successfully predicted the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential Election, had potentially conducted a similar set of research less than a week before the…
GabLeaks: Claims by Gab Refuted by DDOSecrets.com
Not surprisingly, extremists appear to have made some false claims about a hack and data dump involving the far-right platform known as Gab. Rather than repeat their claims — claims that include blatantly bigoted language — DataBreaches.net provides the statement by public interest group DDOSecrets.com: Distributed Denial of Secrets provided a pre-release copy of the…
The Jones Day dump contains prescription drug records. Who’s notifying those patients of the breach?
By now, many are aware that Jones Day, a giant law firm, had some of its files stolen due to vulnerabilities in the standalone file transfer administration system by Accellion. Jones Day is one of dozens of Accellion clients that have found themselves investigating and dealing with breaches affecting their businesses and clients. The Jones…
Zee5 Data Breach: PII of 9 Million Zee5 Users’ Allegedly Leaked Online (updated with denial)
Manikanta Immanni reports: Zee5, an Indian OTT platform with over 150 million users had a part of its userbase’s data leaked again. Found by Rajshekhar Rajaharia, an internet security researcher, over 9 million users of Zee5 allegedly leaked online earlier this week. This is the second time Zee5 in news for a data breach, with the first…
FBI, Michigan State Police investigating cyber attack on Saginaw Township schools
Terry Camp reports: Law enforcement agencies are investigating a cyber attack at Saginaw Township Community Schools. School administrators noticed the issue Sunday. The FBI and Michigan State Police joined the investigation later in the week. “It could have been a whole lot worse, but it certainly has been disruptive in an already disruptive year,” says…