As this site reported yesterday, Somerset Independent School District in Texas was reportedly attacked by Avaddon threat actors. Somerset has not responded to inquiries by this site and they do not seem to have posted anything on their web site about any breach. Yesterday, the threat actors dumped an archive with 1,520 files in 27…
Category: Breach Incidents
Somerset ISD in Texas allegedly hit with ransomware — but were they?
Threat actors claim to have successfully attacked Somerset ISD in Texas with ransomware. But did they? Were functions interrupted at all by files being encrypted? Were phones, email, or internet knocked out at all? DataBreaches.net has seen no local news reports of any of that, and there does not appear to be any notice or…
The Blackbaud ransomware breach — impact on school clients
In July, 2020, cloud software firm Blackbaud announced that it had been the victim of a ransomware attack that began in February of 2020 and continued until Blackbaud was able to kick the attackers out of their system in May. In order to try to protect their clients from having personal and sensitive information on…
Patient data breaches disclosed by Nevada, Pennsylvania entities
Nevada Health Centers is notifying an unspecified number of patients after discovering an unauthorized person accessed an employee’s email account between November 20 and December 7. They do not think the motivation was to obtain ePHI as much as financial information about NHC, but with all the “potentially” kind of language, it will be hard…
‘Particularly Egregious’: US Fertility Hit with Class Action Over Month-Long 2020 Data Breach
Corrado Rizzi reports: US Fertility, LLC faces a proposed class action centered on a reported September 2020 data breach in which hackers armed with ransomware gained access to a trove of personal information from the fertility clinic support services company’s clients. The 29-page lawsuit in Maryland federal court says hackers were able to access US…
Leaks, leaks, leaks….
A small roundup of leak or breach reports from various sources and places in the world… Pakistan Bykea, a Pakistani vehicle-for-hire and parcel delivery company was found leaking its production server with more than 200GB of data containing more than 400 million records. Exposed customer PII included names, phone numbers, and email addresses, while Bykea…