Note: It seems possible that the incident described in DOJ’s press release below is the incident reported by Salted Hash and DataBreaches.net in 2018. According to Singla’s LinkedIn account, he was COO at Securolytics in Atlanta at the time of the Gwinnett breach. A Georgia man was arraigned today on charges arising out of a…
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The Ruthless Cyber Gang Behind the Hospital Ransomware Crisis
Kevin Poulsen and Melanie Evans report on Ryuk threat actors: A ransomware attack on a national hospital chain nearly brought Las Vegas hospitals to their knees. Another attack in Oregon abruptly shut down alerts tied to patient monitors tracking vital signs. In New York, one county’s only trauma center briefly closed to ambulances, with the…
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
This story was originally published by ProPublica and is reproduced with permission. While many are focused on the societal implications, remember that this incident involves a data breach or leak. Was this an insider/whistleblower leak or something else? They report, “ProPublica is not disclosing how it obtained the data, which was given to us in…
Former Chiropractor Found Guilty of Health Care Fraud Charges that She Schemed to Defraud Health Insurers Out of $2.2 Million
A former Orange County chiropractor was found guilty by a jury today of federal criminal charges accusing her of defrauding health insurers by fraudulently submitting and causing to be billed $2.2 million in billings for chiropractic services never provided, bogus medical diagnoses, office visits that never occurred, and medical devices falsely prescribed. Susan H. Poon,…
Meat processor JBS paid $11 million in ransom to hackers.
Rebecca Robbins reports: The world’s largest meat processor said on Wednesday that it paid an $11 million ransom in Bitcoin to the hackers behind an attack that forced the shutdown last week of all the company’s U.S. beef plants and disrupted operations at poultry and pork plants. The company, JBS, said in a statement that the decision…
Castle Hills police recover stolen IDs, urge residents to check for identity theft
It’s not quite on the order of recovering millions in bitcoin, but in Texas last week, a traffic stop in Castle Hills resulted in the recovery of a number of stolen identification paperwork including “A licenses, passports, checkbooks and also some birth certificates and car titles. Now the police are warning the public to check to…