Coastal Medical Group, Old Bridge, is notifying patients of a data security incident that involved the patients’ health information. On April 21, the practice discovered that certain of its computer systems were being affected by a data security event that the practice believes began on March 25, 2021, according to a prepared statement. After discovering…
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GA: Savannah hospital system experiences outage after ransomware attack
Molly Curley, Alex Bozarjian The St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C) hospital system in Savannah was the victim of a ransomware attack Thursday morning. WSAV spoke with a patient who says all computers went down around 4 a.m., and nurses have been forced to keep track of medications with a pen and paper. Read more on WAVY.
New York City Man Pleads Guilty To Illegally Accessing Hundreds Of Snapchat Accounts And Sending Nude Photos
June 16 – BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that David Mondore, 29, of New York, New York, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to accessing a protected computer without authorization and, by means of such conduct, furthering the intended fraud and obtaining anything of value. The charge…
Santa Cruz ‘homeless hacker’ known as “Commander X” extradited from Mexico on decade-old case
Jessica A. York reports: Former Santa Cruz homeless activist “Commander X” has been deported from Mexico to face more than decade-old allegations of maliciously hacking into the county’s computer system. el file) Christopher Doyon, 56, appeared Monday before Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to face indictment…
McDonald’s hit by data breach, customer personal data exposed in South Korea, Taiwan
Michelle Chapman reports: McDonald’s has become the latest company to be hit by a data breach after unauthorized activity on its network exposed the personal data of some customers in South Korea and Taiwan. McDonald’s Corp. said Friday that it quickly identified and contained the incident and that a thorough investigation was done. Read mre…
Chief Operating Officer of Network Security Company Charged with Cyberattack on Medical Center
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…