Joe Marusak reports: A prominent Charlotte medical services provider experienced a recent weeklong data breach in which some patient information was stolen, “including a very limited number of patients’ Social Security numbers,” company officials said Friday. In a statement, Charlotte Radiology officials said they found no evidence of “fraud or misuse” as a result of…
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Sea Mar Community Health Centers Hit with Class Action Suits Over 2021 Data Breach
Kendal Enz reports: Sea Mar Community Health Centers is facing numerous class action complaints for alleged inadequate cyber security procedures that resulted in a data breach of more than 650,000 class members’ sensitive information. The complaints, which were filed in November 2021 in King County Superior Court, were removed to Washington’s Western District Court this…
PA: Bible Fellowship Church Homes notifies residents of data security incident
The following press release is not really clear about whether this was a ransomware incident or not, and as yet, we have no numbers for this one. This post may be updated as more information becomes available. WHITEHALL, Pa., Feb. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Bible Fellowship Church Homes, Inc., dba Fellowship Community (“Fellowship Community”), a faith-based continuing care…
Hackers to face 25 years in jail for cyber attacks on Australia’s national infrastructure
Zach Marzouk reports: Hackers could face up to 25 years in jail if found guilty of cyber offences against Australia’s critical infrastructure, under proposed changes introduced by the government today. The government tabled the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Ransomware Action Plan) Bill 2022 in a bid to modernise criminal offences and procedures to respond to the threat of ransomware….
Cyber-attack on ICRC: What we know
From the International Committee of the Red Cross, an update posted today begins: Update: 16 February 2022, 9 AM CET. Nearly a month has passed since we determined that servers hosting personal data belonging to more than 515,000 people worldwide were hacked in a sophisticated cyber-attack. We are now in a position to share some…
Leak site says it has been given list of Canada truck convoy donors after reported hack
Raphael Satter reports: A leak site says it has been given reams of data about the donors to the Canadian anti-vaccine mandate truckers after the fundraising platform popular with supporters of the movement allegedly suffered a hack. Distributed Denial of Secrets announced on its website that it had 30 megabytes of donor information from Christian…