On June 23, using the greeting that Hive ransomware always used in emailing victims, AlphV wrote to the Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB). Typos, grammar, and spelling as in the original: Hello,Ladies and Gentlemen! This is ALPHV Ransomware Team. We are here to inform you about data breach which took place at the “Bangladesh Krishi Bank”…
Category: Breach Incidents
Au: Atherfield Medical & Skin Cancer Clinic victim of cyberattack by Cyclops
Australia has experienced a number of significant cyberattacks on healthcare entities in the past few years. Now a relatively new ransomware group, Cyclops, claims to have attacked Atherfield Medical & Skin Cancer Clinic in Australia: In Cyclops’ listing (above), there is a date of June 29, which appears to be the date they uploaded…
Why ransomware groups are targeting Indian pharma companies and the healthcare sector; ClearMedi allegedly hacked
Naandika Tripathi reports: Just three months after a ransomware attack pulled down India’s largest drugmaker, Sun Pharmaceuticals, the threat actors went after another pharma company. Hyderabad-based Granules India was notified of a significant loss of revenue and profitability due to a cybersecurity attack in the last week of May. […] From Dr. Reddy’s to the…
Imagine360 discovers that two of its file-sharing platforms were hit within days of each other.
With all the big attacks on third-party vendors, it’s not surprising that some entities are reporting two or more breaches in a short period of time. Imagine360, LLC, is a self-funded health plan for employers. On or around January 30, Imagine360 identified unusual activity within Citrix, its third-party file-sharing platform. Imagine360 terminated access to the…
Murfreesboro Medical Clinic & SurgiCenter ransomware attack affected 559,000 patients (update1)
On May 6 and May 7, DataBreaches reported that the attack on Murfreesboro Medical Clinic & SurgiCenter (“MMC”) appeared to be the work of the ransomware group known as BianLian. On June 14, MMC issued an updated notice on their website, as noted by Daily News Journal. The news report reiterated that MMC refused to…
ARx Patient Solutions and ARx Patient Solutions Pharmacy notify patients of a March, 2022 breach
ARx Patient Solutions and its affiliate pharmacy, ARx Patient Solutions Pharmacy, have issued a press release about a data breach affecting patient data. Their notice states, “It was determined that in March 2022, an employee email account was compromised and accessed by an unauthorized third party.” The types of patient information that may have been…