Laura Watson reports: A Stoke-on-Trent car dealership which boasts more than 10,000 ‘satisfied customers’ has been hit by a major cyber attack. Holdcroft Motor Group, in Leek Road, Hanley, was targeted by hackers who are believed to have stolen years’ worth of data. StokeonTrentLive understands that the firm was hit with a demand for substantial…
Category: Malware
MD: Onyx Technology alerts clients and patients of ransomware incident
On August 12, Onyx Technology of Maryland began notifying regulators and others about a ransomware attack they experienced. According to their notification to the Montana Attorney General’s Office on behalf of Independent Care Health Plan (iCare), they discovered the attack on June 28. Their investigation subsequently found that “a server may have been removed or…
Essonne: a hospital center targeted by a cyberattack, its services severely disrupted
The following is a machine translation: The South Francilien Hospital Center (CHSF) in Corbeil-Essonnes is the victim of a computer attack which began in the night from Saturday to Sunday around 1 a.m., seriously disrupting its activity, according to a press release from the establishment. Some patients are notably redirected to public hospitals in Île-de-France….
Always at risk of DDoS, LockBit finds itself under greater attack after announcing Entrust attack
First LockBit claimed that they had successfully attacked security firm Entrust and would be leaking their files if their demands (financial) were not met. Bleeping Computer broke the story in June and then updated it. Then some person or persons decided to make it harder for LockBit to leak the data on their leak site….
How many breaches has Overlake Medical Center & Clinics experienced in the past few years?
In February 2020, Overlake Medical Center and Clinics in Washington State reported a phishing incident in December 2019. More than 109,200 patients were reportedly affected. HHS investigated the incident and wrote a closing note in the file: Overlake Medical Center and Clinics, the covered entity (CE), reported that multiple employees were the victims of an…
CO: Fremont County cyberattack update
Aidan Hulting reported the following on August 19: Fremont County officials say the county is still suffering from a cyberattack that took down county government systems on Wednesday, August 17th. The attack caused Fremont County Government buildings and county government systems to remain closed through Friday. Read more at KOAA. The official county website still…