On April 11, Cornwall Community Hospital (CCH) in Ottawa reported some “network Issues” and for patients to expect some delays as they worked to restore systems. The hospital’s EHR system was not affected by the attack. On April 13, CCH said they had determined that the network issues were a “cyber incident” and external experts…
Category: Malware
A short-lived BlackCat listing suggests NCR’s customers’ networks were accessed
It’s been more than a decade since DataBreaches covered any significant data breach involving the Aloha POS system, and back then it was owned by Radiant Systems. In 2011, NCR Corporation bought Aloha POS. Things were fairly quiet since then, if you don’t count NCR’s response to a zero day RCE vulnerability that NCR somewhat…
Patient Advances Data Breach Class Action Against Lamoille Health
Christopher Brown reports: Lamoille Health Partners Inc. must face a proposed class action alleging it negligently failed to protect the personal information of 60,000 people that was exposed in a data breach. Lamoille Health wasn’t entitled to immunity from suit under the Public Health Service Act because the lawsuit’s data breach allegations weren’t interwoven with…
Southeastern University silent amid claims of data leak linked to network breach
At the end of February, Southeastern University in Louisiana announced an outage that resulted in the school taking its network offline. Since then, and as DataBreaches first reported on March 4, they have been less than transparent about what happened and the scope of what we know was a ransomware incident involving the BianLian ransomware…
Retina & Vitreous of Texas notifies 35,766 patients of ransomware attack but doesn’t call it one
On April 10, Retina & Vitreous Associates of Texas issued a press release about a security incident discovered in February. They write, in part, “On February 1, 2023, Retina & Vitreous became aware of unusual activity within its network and discovered that there had been unauthorized access to the environment…… On February 15, 2023, the investigation…
Cyberattack cost Ontario town $1.3M, including $290k in Bitcoin ransom
Galen Simmons reports: A cyberattack on the Town of St. Marys that encrypted municipal systems and stole sensitive data cost the local government roughly $1.3 million, including a $290,000 Bitcoin ransom payment made to the hackers, officials have revealed. Two days after the town’s computer systems were crippled in the July 20, 2022, ransomware attack,…