Meghan Schiller reports: t’s a battle between transparency and legal quagmire: who should answer questions about the data breach of private health information for some 70,000 Pennsylvanians? KDKA’s Meghan Schiller talked to one local state senator who tried to get the conversation started but said it ended in silence. “It’s great to ask questions that…
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MA: Concord data breach affected about 70,000 across the country; hard drives still missing
Robert Fucci reports that Concord, Massachusetts is first notifying 70,000 people whose information was on 108 hard drives that went missing in 2019. It’s taken them until now to figure out whom to notify, it seems. “We’ve been waiting on some data from our attorney who has worked on this with us,” Crane said. “We…
Negotiations fail, threat actors dump more data from Metropolitan Police D.C.
This morning’s routine check of leak sites discovered a listing on Babuk threat actors’ leak site that many people have probably dreaded. The message under the shield says: “The negotiations reached a dead end, the amount we were offered does not suit us, we are posting 20 more personal files on officers, you can download…
Tulsa, Oklahoma and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute disclose ransomware incidents
No sector has been spared from ransomware incidents. In this report, we have one from the education sector and one from the government sector. Neither report specifies what type of ransomware or who the threat actors are. And neither one reports how much ransom has been demanded or whether the victim is refusing to pay….
Es: IT services of the Oviedo City Council knocked out
Gonzalo Diaz-Rubin reports that all of the IT services of the Oviedo City Council have been crippled. Machine translation: A malicious program blocked access to servers and data and the municipal contractor has been forced to pull the rest of the support to stop the invasion. It is, according to municipal sources, a ransomware cyber-attack, of…
Three Affiliated Tribes Hit by Ransomware Attack, Holding Tribal Information Hostage
Darren Thompson reports that on April 28, the Three Affiliated Tribes—the Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation—announced to its staff and employees that its server was hacked and believe it was by malicious software called ransomware. Since the server was hacked, the tribe has been unable to access files, email and critical information. Finding out how…