CBS DFW reports: More than a million Texans may have been impacted by a massive data breach involving a large dental care provider. Jefferson Dental and Orthodontics, which has 72 offices across Texas, reported to the Texas Attorney General’s Office a data breach affecting up to 1,026,820 Texans. The breach was posted on the state’s…
Category: Malware
And as the work week draws to a close… (updated)
And as this work week drew to a close, we also learned about these breaches involving patient data that were reported to HHS earlier this month: Dialyze Direct, LLC in New Jersey notified HHS that 14,203 patients were impacted by an incident they coded as a hacking/IT incident involving email. There is no statement on…
WVa: Wheeling Health Right victim of ransomware attack
From the notice on their website: Notice Regarding Recent Data Breach What Happened? On January 18, 2022, Wheeling Health Right discovered that our organization was victimized by a ransomware attack that encrypted our systems. Upon discovery of the security incident, we engaged legal counsel and a data breach remediation firm to conduct an investigation into…
MO: Capital Region reaching out to patients about cyberattack
The News Tribune reports that the Capital Region Medical Center in Missouri has started notifying patients whose protected health information (PHI) was accessed during a ransomware incident in December, 2021 that left their phone systems and network down for several days. CRMC had disclosed the incident promptly but had not been able to immediately determine…
Class action lawsuit against UKG over Kronos Private Cloud ransomware incident
A class action lawsuit has been filed in a California federal court against workplace management software company UKG Inc. UKG makes timekeeping and payroll management software and offers Kronos Private Cloud services. As a result of a ransomware attack in December, employees of the firm’s clients were not paid at all, were paid late, or…
Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine
Brian Krebs reports: As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians. Read more at KrebsOnSecurity.com