Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: British Airways, the BBC, and UK pharmacy chain Boots are among the companies whose data has been compromised after miscreants exploited a critical vulnerability in deployments of the MOVEit document-transfer app. Microsoft reckons the Clop ransomware crew stole the information. British Airways, the BBC, and Boots were not hit directly. Instead, payroll services…
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HHS OCR settles charges against Manasa Health Center for disclosing PHI in response to a negative online review
New Jersey psychiatry practice pays $30,000 to settle complaint about impermissible disclosure of protected health information by disclosing this information in online review Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announces a settlement with Manasa Health Center, LLC, a health care provider in New Jersey that provides…
Can Exposed[.]vc attract BreachForum’s loyal users? It’s trying to.
In a somewhat unusual approach to marketing, a new hacking-related forum intentionally leaked a database with the usernames and email addresses of many of the very people it hopes will register for its new forum — and then advertised the leak. How’s that working out for them so far? When RAIDForums was seized by law…
South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources discloses ransomware attack
South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources has disclosed that they were hit with a ransomware attack on April 3. They do not indicate what group attacked them, or what any ransom demand may have been, and DataBreaches has not seen this incident on any leak site to date. According to their notification, “The investigation remains ongoing,…
Mission Community Hospital attackers exploited vulnerabilites in Paragon and Cisco
As Mission Community Hospital in California continues to investigate a cyberattack in April, more details have emerged as to how the attack by RansomHouse threat actors occurred. As previously reported, the RansomHouse listing for Mission Community Hospital claimed to have 2.5 TB of data and provided some proof of claims. RansomHouse also included a note…
Update on GLBA Safeguards Rule in Higher Education
Benjamin Wanger and Pierce T. Cox of BakerHostetler write: On February 9, 2023, the Department of Education Office of Federal Student Aid (“FSA”) issued an electronic notice regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s Final Rule amending the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information (“Safeguards Rule”) under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”). The amendments to the Safeguards Rule, which go into…