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…
Category: Malware
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,…
Looks like Karakurt is back… (Update 1)
And they have added two medical entities to their leak site today — Medicalodges in Kansas and Petaluma Health Center in California. They provide no proof for either claim, and neither entity has any notice on their respective sites about any incident, so for now, these are unconfirmed claims. Update 1: DataBreaches received a statement…
NCB Management breach affected almost 500,000 former Bank of America credit card holders
NCB Management is an “accounts receivable management company.” In this case, that means collections. According to NCB’s March 24 letter, NCB discovered on February 4 that an unauthorized party gained access to their systems on February 1, 2023. They confirmed on March 8 that some information on consumers’ Bank of America past-due credit card accounts…
New Jersey county police department confirms ransomware attack, unrelated to attack on prosecutor’s office
Jonathan Greig reports: The police department in Camden County, New Jersey confirmed that it was hit with a ransomware attack last month and is still investigating the incident. A spokesperson for the department — which serves the county’s 523,000 residents — told Recorded Future News that the ransomware attack took place on March 13. Camden…