Last week, it appeared that Clinical Diagnostics (“Eurofins”) had paid a gang’s demands not to leak patient data that Nova had exfiltrated during a ransomware attack in July. Clinical Diagnostics in the Netheralands held patient data on 485,000 Dutch women in a cervical cancer screening program. Nova confirmed the payment to a Dutch news outlet….
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Microsoft’s Nuance coughs up $8.5M to rid itself of MOVEit breach suit
Carly Page reports: Microsoft-owned talk-to-text outfit Nuance has agreed to cough up $8.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over the sprawling MOVEit Transfer mega-breach – although it admits no liability. The proposed deal [PDF], filed in a Massachusetts federal court last week, would draw a line under litigation brought by individuals who claimed that the company failed…
Data breach at Fundamental Administrative Services affected 56,235 patients at long-term care facilities
On March 21, 2025, Fundamental Administrative Services, LLC (“Fundamental”), a Maryland-headquartered service provider to long-term care facilities, notified HHS of a breach involving unauthorized access to its network. At the time, they used a “500” placeholder for the number affected, but also posted a substitute notice on their website. This week, Fundamental issued a press…
Kokomo24/7, provider of telehealth services for LAUSD students, reports data breach
Mallika Sheshadri reports: Kokomo Solutions, a technology vendor that provides Los Angeles Unified School District students with telehealth services and a tip line to report suspicious activity, has fallen prey to a data breach. The company noticed “unusual activity on our computer network” on Dec. 11, 2024 — but did not file a data breach notice with the…
NL: Hacked lab paid ransom: ‘Millions of euros demanded’
The following is a machine translation of an article by Daniel Verlaan: The hacked Clinical Diagnostics laboratory in Rijswijk has paid a ransom to the cybercriminals. Ransomware group Nova, responsible for the hack, confirmed this to RTL Nieuws. The laboratory hopes the payment will prevent more stolen data and medical records of Dutch citizens from…
NL: Hackers breach cancer screening data of almost 500,000 women
Dutch News reports: Hackers have accessed the personal data of almost 500,000 women who participated in mass screenings for cervical cancer, research agency Bevolkingsonderzoek Nederland has said. The data breach, which took place at the test processing lab Clinical Diagnostics NMDL in Rijswijk in the first week of July, included the names and addresses of some…