Benjamin Freed reports: The malicious actors behind a ransomware attack against a school district in Texas attempted to extract payment this week with what one analyst said appears to be an entirely new tactic: emailing parents of students with a threat that if school officials do not pay up, their kids’ personal information may be…
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IL: OSF Healthcare discloses ransomware incident
In May, 2021, DataBreaches.net sent an email inquiry to OSF Healthcare in Illinois after seeing that threat actors known as Xing Team claimed to have attacked them and exfiltrated data. OSF Healthcare never responded to the inquiry. In June, after Xing Team started dumping what appeared to be patient data, DataBreaches.net sent OSF Healthcare a…
It seemed that in the blink of an eye, an Indiana health system was crippled by ransomware
Leeann Doerflein reports: Johnson Memorial Health’s information technology team and the FBI are trying to get to the bottom of a weekend cyber attack that crippled the hospital’s computer network. The hackers gained access to the hospital’s network at 10:31 p.m. Friday and installed ransomware by 10:33 p.m. The hospital’s IT team discovered the attack…
Tesuque Casino reopens Tuesday after September cyberattack
Teya Vitu reports: Tesuque Casino will reopen at 10 a.m. on Tuesday after being shut down since Sept. 25 to deal with a cyberattack and secure the facility from future similar incursions. “As for customer data, nothing was compromised, nothing was breached,” casino interim general manager Floyd Samuel said. The casino lost no money in the…
CA: Lodi schools lose internet access due to ‘cyber security’ issue
Giacomo Luca reports: The Lodi Police Department is investigating a “cyber security” issue that knocked out internet access across the Lodi Unified School District, a school spokesperson said Monday. The issue has halted Wi-Fi and access to internet, e-mail, and the district’s websites, said Chelsea Vongehr, a spokesperson for Lodi Unified. Read more on ABC10.
Anonymous releases data on Texas GOP in latest Epik hack dump
Mikael Thalen reports: Hackers operating under the banner of Anonymous have released more data from Epik, the controversial web hosting company known for offering refuge to the far-right. In a press release titled “You Lost The Game,” the hacktivist group announced on Monday part three of what it has dubbed “Operation EPIK FAIL.” The latest…