Sudbury.com reports: Data acquired by unauthorized individuals during Rainbow District School Board’s recent cyber incident “was deleted and has not been shared,” according to an update on the situation from the school board. The school board also said in the Feb. 28 statement that three weeks after the cyber incident, which meant internet was unavailable…
Category: Breach Incidents
Medusa Unveils Another 50TB of Stolen Data from HCRG Care Group, Giving Greater Insight Into the Scope of the Breach
After the Medusa gang reportedly demanded a $2 million ransom from UK healthcare and community services provider HCRG Care Group, HCRG confirmed they had a breach and said they were investigating. But they did not confirm that patient data and employee was affected and they did not confirm that files had been encrypted. On February…
How federal rules on cybersecurity breach transparency for businesses were challenged in court in 2024
Dom DiFurio reports: In October, four companies collectively paid nearly $7 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly failing to properly inform investors of a cyberbreach affecting their companies, a liability American businesses have not previously faced. The companies were compromised in a cyberattack targeting their IT software provider in…
Cyberespionage groups or cybercriminals? UAV and C-UAV vendors and buyers are increasingly targeted
As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or “drones”) and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are increasingly deployed as part of military operations, there has also been an upsurge in counter-UAV (C-UAV) and counter-UAS technologies designed to detect and neutralize the threats they pose. Unsurprisingly, there has been an uptick in cyberespionage groups and cybercriminals attempting to acquire…
Memorial Hospital and Manor notifies 120,085 people of November ransomware attack
On November 3, 2024, WALB in Georgia reported that Memorial Hospital and Manor had been the victim of a ransomware attack on November 1 that they discovered on November 2. The hospital announced the incident on its Facebook page in a post that is no longer available. But Memorial Hospital and Manor did not appear…
Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
Jennifer Bendery reports: Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it. DOGE, which President Donald Trump created to…