For lo, these many years, DataBreaches.net has been reminding everyone that not all leaks or breaches involving medical or sensitive personal health information are covered by HIPAA. Today’s story is a reminder of that. vpnMentor recently contacted DataBreaches.net about a leak their research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, had discovered. The leak…
Category: Breach Incidents
More details emerge on Hall County, Georgia ransomware attack
As reported previously on this site, Hall County, Georgia had revealed a ransomware attack on October 7, but until now, we didn’t know who attacked them. Now the threat actors known as DoppelPaymer have added Hall County to their dedicated leak site. In their updates, the county had reported: At this time, there is no…
Privacy nightmare for Toledo Public Schools: Hackers dumped student and employee data
By mid-September, it was clear that school districts were under increased threat of ransomware attacks. In fact, when Clark County School District (CCSD) in Las Vegas and Fairfax County Public Schools (CFPS) in Virginia were added to the Maze cartel’s leak site, it seemed to portend potentially big data dumps. Since that dump, Maze dumped…
Home security cams hacked in Singapore, and stolen footage sold on adult websites
Graham Cluley writes that Singapore residents have discovered the ugly truth that video from their in-home security cams has been hacked and embarrassing footage put up for sale: as local media reports, clips stolen from more than 50,000 hacked cameras have been uploaded to pornographic websites, and X-rated footage sold to people prepared to pay a…
Software AG falls prey to ransomware attack
Earlier this week, Catalin Cimpanu reported Software AG, one of the largest software companies in the world, has suffered a ransomware attack over the last weekend, and the company has not yet fully recovered from the incident. A ransomware gang going by the name of “Clop” has breached the company’s internal network on Saturday, October…
Cyberattack on Georgia agency exposed private information of parents, children
WSBTV reports: Hackers breached state email accounts in the Georgia Department of Human Services exposing personal information of adults and children who have cases with Child Protective Services and the Division of Family and Children Services. The breach happened in the first two weeks of May, but state officials say it was August before state…