Statement by the U.S. Department of Justice today: A federal grand jury in Atlanta returned an indictment last week charging four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with hacking into the computer systems of the credit reporting agency Equifax and stealing Americans’ personal data and Equifax’s valuable trade secrets. The nine-count indictment alleges…
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CT: No E-Mail/Internet At Vernon Schools Monday Amid Security Check
Chris Dehnel reports: Schools in Vernon will have no internet access or e-mail capabilities on Monday while education officials look into a potential security breach. Parents were alerted via text and phone messages Sunday evening. According to the messages, school officials discovered what was termed “a potential for unauthorized access to our network” on Saturday…
MA: Shields Health Solutions Notified Patients after Hack of Employee Email Account
From their website (they also published a press release on this incident): Shields Health Solutions takes seriously the confidentiality and security of patient information. Regrettably, this notice is to inform patients of a recent incident that may have involved some patients’ information. Shields provides specialty pharmacy services to hospitals and other covered entities. On October…
CA: Woman claims doctor mishandled patient records
Tori Cooper reports: Thousands of confidential patient records made it into 23ABC Newsroom Friday. Haylee Jones, stopped by with a box full of patient records, detailing highly privileged personal information belonging to thousands of patients in Kern County along with prescriptions and more. Kern Medical confirmed with us that Rishi Telwar was in the residency…
PA: Allegheny Intermediate Unit investigates malware attack, avoids ransom payment
Jeff Himler reports: Allegheny Intermediate Unit alerted its employees Thursday afternoon to a recent malware attack on its data network but said there’s no initial evidence the perpetrator accessed sensitive information. According to the employee notice, which was made available to the Tribune-Review, an “unknown entity” encrypted portions of the intermediate unit’s network and demanded…
FL: Ryuk ransomware used to attack Volusia library computers, records show
Mark Harper reports: Volusia County officials have turned over information for criminal investigation and public records indicate the cyber attacks that took down library computers used Ryuk ransomware. The cyberattack that took down public-access computers at Volusia County libraries last month involved ransomware that has elicited millions of dollars in ransom payments from governments and large businesses….