An email DataBreaches received yesterday from an unrecognized account contained just one line – a link to a new listing on the D#nut Leaks ransomware group’s leak site about Montgomery General Hospital (MGH) in West Virginia. MGH is part of the Montgomery General Health Care System, Inc., which includes the hospital, Montgomery General Elderly Care, Montgomery…
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Today’s “Don’t Say ‘Ransomware’ Award” goes to….
DataBreaches probably sounds like a broken record after six years of calls for more transparency in breach notifications. Sadly, the situation has gotten worse in the past year. Not only do entities fail to admit they suffered a ransomware attack, but they fail to inform patients if the patient’s protected health information was leaked or…
‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics
Luke Harding, Stiliyana Simeonova, Manisha Ganguly, and Dan Sabbagh at The Guardian provide some background on the Vulkan Files: ….. The Vulkan files, which date from 2016 to 2021, were leaked by an anonymous whistleblower angered by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Such leaks from Moscow are extremely rare. Days after the invasion in February last…
Nine months after ransomware attack, Atlantic Dialysis Management Services notifies patients and regulators
In August 2022, DataBreaches reported a ransomware attack on Atlantic Dialysis Management Services (ADMS) by Snatch Team. DataBreaches first learned of the breach in June 2022, when Snatch Team named ADMS on their leak site. Between then and August 16, when DataBreaches reported on the incident, ADMS ignored requests from this site for information about…
Hospitals owned by Universal Health Services start filing breach reports about Adelanto HealthCare Ventures breach in 2021 (Update5)
Happening now: A number of hospitals are filing breach notices this week that appear to be linked to a breach at Adelanto HealthCare Ventures (AHCV) in 2021. The hospitals are all owned by Universal Health Services LLC (UHS). So far, DataBreaches has found McAllen Hospitals, LP d/b/a South Texas Health System, Doctors Hospital of Laredo,…
Ransomware crooks are exploiting IBM file exchange bug with a 9.8 severity
Dan Goodin reports: Threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in an IBM file-exchange application in hacks that install ransomware on servers, security researchers have warned. The IBM Aspera Faspex is a centralized file-exchange application that large organizations use to transfer large files or large volumes of files at very high speeds. Rather than relying…