On February 18, 2019, Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane notified HHS of a breach impacting 400,000 patients. The incident was coded as a network/IT incident involving data on the network server. DataBreaches.net reached out to the entity for additional details concerning what we hypothesized was a ransomware attack. But despite two phone calls to the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Million-plus Israeli websites target of ransomware hack
Jewish News Syndicate reports: A massive hacking attempt to infest more than a million Israeli websites with ransomware that would lock administrators out until they agreed to pay was thwarted over Shabbat, though many pages were defaced with “Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine.” The hackers attacked the Hebrew website Nagich, which is dedicated to…
Report – Dalil Data Breach: 5+ Million Users’ Data Exposed by Unsecured App
VPNMentor reports: Dalil is the biggest phone directory in Saudi Arabia. With more than 5 million downloads, Dalil is the 13th most popular communications app in the Kingdom. For context, this is where Viber and Telegram rank in the US. 96% of its users are in Saudi Arabia; the remainder are in Egypt and other…
IL: Suburban man charged with ID theft stemming from 2015 UChicago data breach
There’s a follow-up to a University of Chicago hack first reported on this site in 2015, when DataBreaches.net tried to alert the university to a hack and partial data dump claimed by Carbonic. Fox32 reports: A Naperville man was charged this week with stealing the identity of a west suburban couple after their personal information…
BambooHR discloses breach involving TraxPayroll
BambooHR is a cloud-based human resources (HR) software service headquartered in Utah that provides human resources software as a service for small and midsize businesses. Their services include TraxPayroll. On February 13, the firm became aware of unauthorized access by an unidentified third party. The initial access appeared to have occurred on February 5. Inappropriate…
ShareThis breach notification
In my inbox last night: Hello, At ShareThis, protecting the security of the information in our possession is a responsibility we take very seriously. We write to notify you of a data security incident that may have exposed some of your personal information. This notice explains the incident and steps ShareThis has undertaken to address…