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De: Klinikum Lippe hospital decrypts data after “intensive negotiations” with ransomware attackers

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Dissent

The Klinikum Lippe describes itself as one of the largest municipal hospitals in Germany and part of the University Hospital OWL of the University of Bielefeld. On November 17, they detected a significant cyberattack that impacted all three of their locations: Detmold, Lemgo, and Bad Salzuflen. From its own statements, it appeared that the hospital…

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Connexin Software notifies parents of 2.2 million pediatric patients of hack

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Dissent

Connexin Software, a business associate to numerous pediatric practices, recently notified HHS that it experienced a breach that affected 2,216,365 patients. One thing DataBreaches noted with interest in their substitute notice below is their statement that an unauthorized individual was able to access an offline set of patient data used for data conversion and troubleshooting. …

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One Brooklyn Health System offline for more than one week — has it been hit with ransomware?

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Dissent

If it sounds like a ransomware attack and they won’t tell you what’s going on for more than one week, I think ransomware sounds like a reasonable guess, and DataBreaches understands why some people are suggesting that.  On November 25, The City reported: The computer network system at a major Brooklyn hospital network has been…

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Liability for cyber attacks clarified by Ontario Court of Appeal

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Dissent

Molly Reynolds, Nic Wall, and Shalom Cumbo-Steinmetz of Torys LLP write: The Ontario Court of Appeal released a trilogy of decisions on November 25 on the availability of the “intrusion upon seclusion” tort in data breach class actions. At issue was whether the tort can be used against corporate defendants that had been hacked by…

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Trigona ransomware spotted in increasing attacks worldwide

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: A previously unnamed ransomware has rebranded under the name ‘Trigona,’ launching a new Tor negotiation site where they accept Monero as ransom payments. Trigona has been active for some time, with samples seen at the beginning of the year. However, those samples utilized email for negotiations and were not branded under a…

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GA: Federal magistrate judge recommends dismissing hacking case against Vikas Singla

Posted on November 29, 2022 by Dissent

In June 2021, DataBreaches reported that Vikas Singla had been indicted on charges relating to a 2018 cyberattack on Gwinnett Medical Center. At the time of the alleged attack, Singla was the chief operating officer of a metro-Atlanta network security company.  He was charged with 18 counts of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act…

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