Kate Evans reports: Morgan County Schools was one of many victims of a massive Fourth of July weekend ransomware attack that struck businesses and agencies nationally and around the globe. A Russian-based hacker group initially demanded $70 million to stop the cyberattack. School Superintendent Kristen Tuttle said at a July 6 school board meeting that…
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ME: York Animal Hospital hit by ransomware, lost all patient records for past four years.
Camille Fine reports: The team at York Animal Hospital has nearly finished manually reentering inventory data that was lost to a ransomware attack that wiped all patient records from the past four years. “Five phone lines have been ringing off the hook,” owner Bill Walak said Monday. “We’ve been inundated all day.” People have been calling to make appointments…
Alliance Healthcare Services plans to ‘vigorously defend’ against ‘unfounded’ PACS-breach lawsuit
There’s been a lot of media coverage about a potential class action lawsuit filed against Northeast Radiology and Alliance Healthcare Services. Now one of the defendants has issued a statement saying it will defend itself vigorously. Marty Stempniak reports: Radiology firm Alliance Healthcare Services said it plans to “vigorously defend” itself against a recently proposed…
Millennia Group notifying people of 2019 email breach
Ohio-headquartered The Millennia Companies are involved in housing management. On some date that this site does not yet know, they learned that there had been unauthorized access to some employee email accounts between October 21, 2019 and December 18, 2019. “The Millennia Companies immediately launched an investigation in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals who regularly investigate…
Dotty’s Reveals Details about Data Breach Incident
Jerome Garcia reports: Dotty’s, a company that runs some 120 gaming venues in Nevada, has reportedly suffered a data breach. Owned by Craig Estey and his Nevada Restaurant Services (NRS) company, it seems that Dotty’s was the victim of a cyberattack related to malware earlier this year. Dotty’s data breach was first unveiled last week by Vital Vegas, a website run by Scott…
More than four months after DarkSide attack, Guess notifies individuals of breach
In April, DataBreaches.net reported a chat with DarkSide threat actors. As part of that report, this site noted that Guess, the well-known clothing and accessories retailer, had been attacked in February and listed on the DarkSide threat actor’s dedicated leak site. DataBreaches.net had looked at the proof of claim that DarkSide had posted and described…