On July 12, threat actors known as Hunters International added Betances Health Center in New York to their leak site. On July 25, they leaked what they claim is almost 125 GB of information consisting of 361,564 files. Betances Health Center describes itself as offering a full range of primary care and preventive services, as…
The Jersey Evening Post reported: More than 10,000 appointments have been cancelled at the two London NHS trusts that were worst affected by a cyber attack earlier this summer, new figures have revealed. Pathology services provider Synnovis was the victim of a ransomware attack by Russian cyber gang Qilin on June 3. An update from…
Zack Whittaker reports: A security researcher says six companies were saved from having to pay potentially hefty ransom demands, in part thanks to rookie security flaws found in the web infrastructure used by the ransomware gangs themselves. Two companies received the decryption keys to unscramble their data without having to pay the cybercriminals a ransom,…
Irvin Jackson reports: Following a massive AT&T data breach that resulted in the theft of tens of millions of customers’ phone and text messaging history, a U.S. Senator has sent a request for more information about how the breach occurred and when federal agencies learned about the problems, suggesting that cyberattack could represent a threat…
Davey Winder reports: An updated advisory from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has warned of the danger from a ransomware group that has demanded as much as $60 million from its victims, and a staggering total of $500 million so far. The criminal hackers concerned have rebranded from calling themselves Royal…
Although DataBreaches does not report on all incidents involving U.S. healthcare entities, a log is kept to calculate statistics for the annual Breach Barometer report produced by Protenus, Inc. For the month of July, DataBreaches noted the following six U.S. hospitals disclosed breaches or were claimed as victims by threat actors. Some of these incidents…