Harold Brubaker reports: Computer systems at Delaware County’s Crozer Health were offline Thursday after a ransomware attack on the health system’s owner, Prospect Medical Holdings Inc., the company said. “We have experienced a ransomware attack that is Prospect-wide, and are currently evaluating the situation,” Crozer spokesperson Lori Bookbinder said in a text. “We will provide…
Category: Breach Incidents
The plaintiffs have standing to sue — court. No, they don’t — appeals court.
Here’s yet one more case to note about standing and how cases may get dismissed before they even really get started. This case involved Syracuse ASC, LLC. In 2021, they experienced a cyberattack and notified 24,891 patients. A copy of their notification was posted to the Vermont Attorney General’s website at the time. In due…
Discovery at Home notifies patients after phishing incident
Discovery at Home provides senior home healthcare services to seniors in Florida and Texas. On July 31, they issued a website notice about a phishing incident they discovered on June 1. As they describe it, the scheme resulted in the transmittal of personal health information to an unauthorized third-party sender. Elements of personal information that may…
MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley provides notice of ransomware attack last November (1)
On December 22, 2022 DataBreaches added MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley to our non-public breach worksheet. Based on information at that time from Hive threat actors, it appeared that the non-profit Texas mental health and substance abuse treatment provider’s files had been locked on November 5. Their listing on Hive’s leak site was a sure…
School Accreditation Organization Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Information on Students, Parents, and Teachers Online
Seen on WebsitePlanet: Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to WebsitePlanet a non-password protected database that contained 680k records. Upon further investigation, it was identified that these records were related to educational institutions. Documents inside the database suggested that it belonged to the Southern Association of Independent Schools, Inc (SAIS). In my many years as…
Attacked by Black Basta, BankCard USA paid ransom.
Marco A. De Felice of SuspectFile (aka @amvinfe) reports that BankCard USA (BUSA) recently paid the Black Basta ransomware group $50,000 ransom. But if BUSA hoped to keep the breach and payment out of the public eye, they should sit down before they read SuspectFile’s reporting, because it is going to make them sad. BankCard…