While LockBit was adding one physician-owned medical entity to its leak site, a relatively new group known as 8Base was adding another physician-owned medical entity to its own leak site. 8Base claims to have attacked Kansas Medical Center on June 18 and to have downloaded data on July 11. They claim they will publish the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Another business associate attack results in theft of patient data — Panorama Eyecare
Panorama Eyecare in Colorado is a physician-owned firm providing business associate services to vision care providers: Earlier today, the firm was added to LockBit’s leak site with a claim that 798 GB of data had been exfiltrated from four of the firm’s clients: Eye Center of Northern Colorado Denver Eye Surgeons Cheyenne Eye Clinic &…
Trinidad and Tobago facing outages after cyberattack
Jonathan Greig reports: Trinidad and Tobago’s justice department is dealing with a cyberattack that has impacted the ministry’s operations. The island nation of more than 1.4 million people announced on Friday that its Ministry of Digital Transformation discovered a cyberattack targeting the country’s Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs (AGLA) in…
Scoop: Razer hacker tells DataBreaches he’s making no attempt to extort Razer
On July 8, DataBreaches broke the news that what appeared to be intellectual property from Razer had been listed for sale on a popular hacking forum. When DataBreaches contacted Razer on Saturday to find out if they were aware of the listing and had any comment, a spokesperson responded that they were aware of a…
No need to hack when it’s leaking, Saturday edition: Translation service leaked 25k records
Jeremiah Fowler reports finding a non-secured database with more than 25,000 records, many with sensitive information: The unsecured database contained internal screenshots of source code as well as customer documents that were stored in uploads folders. These documents include: US Federal and State tax filings, passports, driver licenses, birth and marriage records, business documents, denied…
Gates Corporation (no, not THAT Gates) discloses a ransomware attack
Gates Corporation in Denver describes itself as a leading manufacturer of application-specific fluid power and power transmission solutions. On July 7, its external counsel filed a notice of a breach with the Maine Attorney General’s Office. According to the notification, 11,090 people were affected by a ransomware attack that occurred on February 11. The firm’s…