Charles Toutant reports: A New Jersey hospital has been hit with six class action suits after hackers obtained patient information in a data breach. CentraState Medical Center allegedly failed to take adequate precautions to prevent such attacks, and then compounded the error by waiting six weeks to notify plaintiffs and class members about the breach,…
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True Health New Mexico settles lawsuit over 2021 ransomware incident
True Health New Mexico has agreed to a class action settlement to resolve claims that the health insurance provider failed to protect patient data from an October 2021 data breach. As reported by Top Class Actions, plaintiffs in several lawsuits claimed True Health New Mexico failed to protect their sensitive information from a ransomware attack…
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CO: The Red de Salud del Norte Joaquín Paz Borrero Hospital hit with ransomware The Cali District Government has implemented its contingency plan due to a computer attack on Joaquín Paz Borrero Hospital. The hospital is part of the Northern Health Network. “They encrypt the information on server number 4 with passwords and leave us…
Nl: Three arrested in massive hacking, data theft and blackmail probe; One was a whitehat researcher
DutchNews.nl reports: Amsterdam’s cyber crime police team has arrested three young men as part of a major investigation into hacking, data theft, blackmail and money laundering involving the private details of tens of millions of people. The three, aged 21 and 18, were picked up on January 23 and two have been restricted to contact…
‘Nevada Group’ hackers target thousands of computer networks
Mehul Srivastava reports: A mysterious and unidentified group of hackers has sought to paralyse the computer networks of almost 5,000 victims across the US and Europe, in one of the most widespread ransomware attacks on record. The hacking unit, initially nicknamed the Nevada Group by security researchers, began a series of attacks that started around…
Chinese security researchers claim to have identified ‘Against The West’ hackers
Alexander Martin reports: Researchers from the Chinese cybersecurity company Qi An Pangu Lab believe they have identified six members of the “Against The West” hacking group, according to a report published Sunday by state-controlled media. The report implicitly alleges without evidence that the hackers are connected to or sponsored by Western nation-states. The six display…