We don’t see many breach reports involving lost devices these days, but records can also be lost due to other causes, such as cyberattacks that encrypt or corrupt files or attacks that delete records where there is no backup. In this case, records were lost during a move to a new facility and transition to…
Category: U.S.
New Hampshire Lottery website experiences cyberattack
Tim Callery reports: New Hampshire Lottery officials warned of a cyberattack on its website on Friday. Officials said people visiting the site should not click on any pop-up messages. Read more at WMUR.
A confusing data dump from Vice Society
Attacking entities that try to save lives or provide health care seems despicable to most people—and attacking a hospice? That may seem especially vile. Vice Society recently added two victims to their dedicated leak site: BSA Hospice of the Southwest and Family Medicine Centers/FMC Clinics. Both are Texas entities. But were both actually attacked by…
San Diego American Indian Health Center: over 27,000 people are affected by data theft
Marco A. De Felice reports: 27,367 people, including patients and healthcare / administrative staff, were affected by the theft of sensitive data after the ransomware-type cyber attack last May 5 at the San Diego American Indian Health Center (“SDAIHC”) in the state of California. Recall that, among the people involved in the theft of their sensitive data, there…
HC3: Analyst Note: Karakurt Threat Profile
HC3: Analyst Note TLP: White Report: 202208241200 Executive Summary Karakurt ransomware group, also known as the Karakurt Team and Karakurt Lair, is a relatively new cybercrime group, with researchers reporting its first emergence in late 2021. Karakurt actors claim to steal data and then threaten to auction it off or release it to the public…
Et tu, Last Pass?
Received today: Dear valued customer, We are writing to inform you that we recently detected some unusual activity within portions of the LastPass development environment. We have determined that an unauthorized party gained access to portions of the LastPass development environment through a single compromised developer account and took portions of source code and some…