WSOC reports: Charlotte Radiology said it experienced a data breach involving patient information back in December. Channel 9 received a letter from the health care provider Thursday that said they identified the security incident on Dec. 24 and notified law enforcement. During the investigation, they also learned that between Dec. 17 and Dec. 24, an…
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State unemployment, jobs services down around the country after cyberattack at GSI
Kevin Collier has more on the Geographic Solutions cyberattack previously noted on DataBreaches that is impacting state job services agencies around the country: A cyberattack has hit a company that handles unemployment claims and job placement for state governments, disrupting online services across the country. The departments of labor and related agencies have been affected…
Health Information Management vendor breach results in theft of patient info
Unauthorized access to a New Jersey Health Information Management (HIM) vendor’s portal has resulted in some patients’ protected health information being acquired and exfiltrated. Earlier today, DataBreaches was contacted by someone known to this site as “DarkFox.” DataBreaches has reported on DarkFox in the past without identifying them, but is identifying them this time by…
Hackers claim to hit Israeli tourism sites
Tzvi Joffre reports: A hacker group called Sharp Boys claimed that it had obtained data from Israeli tourism sites on Tuesday, including ID numbers, addresses, credit card information and more. Which sites were affected? The affected sites, according to the hackers, are hotels.co.il, isrotel.com, minihotel.co.il, tivago.co.il and danhotels.com. Read more at Jerusalem Post.
Cyberattacks: Karakurt makes a comeback with a bang
The following is a machine translation of an article by Valéry Rieß-Marchive: “A lot of May leaks are coming”. This is the message displayed in large print on the front page of Karakurt’s new showcase site. And he is not alone. It is accompanied by the announcement of future disclosures of data concerning 10 hitherto unknown victims. All are scheduled for…
Illuminate breach victims are still first being notified
Spotted today: a notification by the Renton School District in Washington that they notified 20,509 Washington residents on June 17 dues to a breach that sounds like the Illuminate breach (based on the dates reported by Renton): https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM13493.pdf