BR: Instituto Federal Do Pará Attack Claimed By BlackCat The Instituto Federal Do Pará (IFPA) is a public education institution in Brazil. On January 21, it was added to the leaks site of the AlphV (BlackCat) group with a message saying, “The guys decided to ignore our ransom demands, so the data of their employees…
Category: Breach Incidents
Class action lawsuits following breaches in the medical sector: do they help or make things worse?
In their predictions for 2023, the very first prediction by Mary T. Costigan, Jason C. Gavejian & Joseph J. Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis involved healthcare and medical data security and tracking: 2023 will see a significant increase in the number of lawsuits and perhaps OCR compliance reviews relating to medical information privacy and HIPAA, including new…
Zacks Investment Research notifies 820,000 clients
Bill Toulas reports: Hackers breached Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) company last year and gained access to personal and sensitive information belonging to 820,000 customers. […] An internal investigation into the incident determined that a threat actor gained access to the network somewhere between November 2021 and August 2022. It is unclear if any data was…
Stratford University discloses ransomware attack — but which ransomware attack?
In September 2022, DataBreaches reported Stratford University had been the target of three ransomware attacks in previous months by REvil, Snatch Team, and Avos Locker. Snatch Team and Avos Locker had informed DataBreaches that neither had encrypted Stratford’s files; they exfiltrated and attempted to ransom them. Stratford never responded to inquiries from DataBreaches about the multiple…
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois notifies 184,183 of ransomware attack one year ago
On March 25, 2022, Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) notified HHS of a breach affecting 1,000 people. The incident, still under investigation by HHS, was coded as a “Hacking/IT Incident” involving data on the network server. On January 25, 2023, LSSI notified the Maine Attorney Genera’s Office a breach affecting a total of 184,183…
Indianapolis Housing Authority breach was worse than originally estimated
In early October, Fox News reported that the Indianapolis Housing Authority had suffered a cyberattack, noting The personal information of approximately 25,000 IHA residents plus the data from vendors and employees as well as financial transactions shared with the Department of Housing and Urban Development are likely at risk. The city has now reported the…