On October 17, the FBI issued a Public Service Announcement, Cybercriminals are Targeting Plastic Surgery Offices and Patients. Five days later, DataBreaches learned that there had been another attack on a plastic surgery practice where patient data had allegedly been stolen and is in danger of being leaked publicly. It would not be surprising if…
Category: Breach Incidents
France frees the two biggest Spanish hackers
The following is from a machine translation of an article by Luis F. Duran that appeared at El Mundo on October 18: Last Thursday, French Justice released two Spanish hackers, aged 26 and 28, arrested last summer on charges of attacking 26 French companies from which they supposedly demanded million-dollar ransoms. After the investigation and the…
More lawsuits filed against Gaston College over data breach
Kara Fohner reports: Two more lawsuits filed against Gaston College allege that a data breach earlier this year exposed the personal information of more than 100,000 people. The lawsuits, filed by Ludenia Archie and Shaquasia Eppes, both former students, state that in the Feb. 21 cybersecurity incident, in which a hacker accessed sensitive files and…
Another small firm suffers a serious ransomware attack: Cadre Services gets mauled by AlphV
There are some data leaks that make you shake your head and wonder about how a firm responded to a ransomware attack. This is one of them. Cadre Services (previously known as Premier Staffing) is a Wisconsin-based company providing employment and staffing services for office professionals. They have been in business since 1994. In a…
BlackCat threatens to leak data from Morrison Community Hospital (1)
On October 13, AlphV threat actors added Morrison Community Hospital to their dark web leak site. Within hours, it appeared to have been removed. Today, it was re-listed with this commentary by AlphV: HUGE LEAK COMING! SQL + DATA = 5TB Given that we haven’t received a clear response from MCH representatives, we’ve decided to…
Hacker leaks millions of new 23andMe genetic data profiles
Lawrence Abrams reports: A hacker has leaked an additional 4.1 million stolen 23andMe genetic data profiles for people in Great Britain and Germany on a hacking forum. Earlier this month, a threat actor leaked the stolen data of 1 million Ashkenazi Jews who used 23andMe services to find their ancestry info and genetic predispositions. 23andMe told BleepingComputer…