It’s gotten that there are so many ransomware incidents in the healthcare sector, that even tens of thousands of affected patients may not make headlines. One of the recent additions to HHS’s public breach tool involved the Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery of Minnesota. They reported that 80,000 patients were being notified. The following…
Category: Malware
ME: U.S. Secret Service investigates data hack at Bonny Eagle schools
Gillian Graham reports: The Secret Service is investigating a data breach that exposed the financial information of MSAD 6 [Maine School Administrative District 6] employees. One of the district’s servers was hacked last week and a piece of ransomware was installed, according to school officials. The breach happened on Nov. 30 and was discovered Dec. 2…
Ransomware attack hits major US data center provider
Catalin Cimpanu reports: CyrusOne, one of the biggest data center providers in the US, has suffered a ransomware attack, ZDNet has learned. CyrusOne is currently working with law enforcement and forensics firms to investigate the attack and is also helping customers restore lost data from backups. Read more on ZDNet.
IL Ransomware attack hits Sycamore School District 427
Matthew N. Wells reports: Visitors to the Sycamore School District 427 website Tuesday were greeted with a pop-up message saying the district had been the victim of a ransomware attack. The message from D-427 Superintendent Kathy Countryman addressed the issue on the district’s website. Read more on Daily Chronicle. The name struck me as familiar,…
Merck cyberattack’s $1.3 billion question: Was it an act of war?
Riley Griffin of Bloomberg reports: By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down. It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who were already at their desks at Merck offices across the U.S. were…
Magecart Hackers Open Fire at Smith & Wesson Customers
Phil Muncaster reports: Digital skimming hackers have been in action again, this time targeting the website of a leading US gun-maker and its customers.c Springfield, Massachusetts-based Smith & Wesson was attacked on Black Friday, during one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year, according to Sanguine Security. The security vendor’s forensics man, Willem de Groot,…