—– A DataBreaches.net report by Dissent and Chum1ng0 —– Since 2018, threat actors known as “Pysa” (for “Protect Your System Amigo”) have used mespinoza ransomware to lock up victims’ files after exfiltrating a copy of them. In early 2020, alerts about these “big-game hunters” were published by both the FBI and CNIL . Since then,…
Category: U.S.
Paxton Newspaper Employees’ Data Copied, Company Reveals
Kyle Massey reports: Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, which owns the Jonesboro Sun, the Batesville Guard, the Daily Citizen of Searcy and other Arkansas newspapers, suffered a cyber attack that potentially compromised employees’ birthdates, Social Security numbers and banking data. The newspaper chain, which has been in acquisition mode, owns a total of 120…
Coghlin Electrical Co. hit with ransomware attack
Monica Benevides reports: Worcester contractor Coghlin Electrical Corp. experienced a ransomware attack on Monday [July 26], although compromised files have been recovered, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported Friday. When reached via email by WBJ, Coghlin CEO Sue Mailman declined to expand on the situation. From the earlier report and this one, it sounds like…
Student sues San Dieguito district, says classmate cyberstalked her, hacked her grades
I missed this one when it was first published two weeks ago, but apart from the privacy issues involving cyberstalking, it involves a hack of a school district’s information system and a class action lawsuit against the software firm. Kristen Taketa reported: Haley Dinsmore was 12 when a classmate at Earl Warren Middle School asked…
Cayuga Medical Center and Wisconsin Institute of Urology notifying patients of breaches
In addition to a breach reported by Renaissance, two other breaches involving protected health information were disclosed yesterday. Here’s what you might want to know about those: Cayuga Medical Center We are still first learning about some victims of the Accellion data breach that took place back in December and January when threat actors exploited…
Health insurer notifies members after third-party vendor suffers ransomware attack
It appears that a third-party vendor has quietly paid ransom to unidentified threat actors. In a press release yesterday, Renaissance Life & Health Insurance Company of America says they were notified on June 1 by their vendor, Secure Administrative Solutions LLC (“SAS”), of a ransomware incident that involved unauthorized access to its systems occurred between…