In November, Marietta Area Health Care Inc. dba Memorial Health System notified HHS of a breach. The number affected was submitted as 501 — a number that this site often interprets as just a marker to show that the entity knows there was more than 500 patients to notify, but hasn’t yet figured out exactly…
Category: Malware
Saved by the backups: Hospital Centro de Andalucia recovered quickly from ransomware attack
Some ransomware groups have pledged not to attack healthcare facilities. Vice Society is not one of them, as their recent attack on a Spanish hospital reminds us. Amaveca Salud provides a number of in-patient and outpatient services and therapies. Last year, they inaugurated a private hospital, Hospital Centro de Andalucia in Lucena, Spain. When…
PA: Butler County Community College data from November ransomware attack appears on dark web
When Vice Society threat actors added Butler Community College in Kansas to their leak site, DataBreaches.net began digging into the data dump, only to discover that it was not the Kansas community college that had been attacked at all, but rather, it was Butler County Community College (“BC3”) in Butler, Pennsylvania that they had attacked….
School’s out as cyberattack forces Albuquerque Public Schools to cancel classes
Olivier Uytterbrouck and Jessica Dyer report: A cyberattack against Albuquerque Public Schools prompted the state’s largest district to cancel all classes districtwide on Thursday and possibly Friday. APS Superintendent Scott Elder said the attack was discovered Wednesday morning “when teachers tried to log onto our student information system and were unable to gain access to…
Ransomware puts New Mexico prison in lockdown: Cameras, doors go offline
Thomas Claburn reports: Bernalillo County, New Mexico, has been unable to comply with the settlement terms of a 27-year-old lawsuit over prison conditions because of a ransomware attack last week that saw prisoners back under manual control. County officials on January 6, 2022, filed a notice [PDF] with the New Mexico District Court overseeing the…
Hacking group accidentally infects itself with Remote Access Trojan horse
Over in the here’s-a-teeny-tiny-violin-for-you department, Graham Cluley writes: Patchwork, an Indian hacking group also known by such bizarre names as Hangover Group, Dropping Elephant, Chinastrats, and Monsoon, has proven the old adage that to err is human, but to really cock things up you need to be a cybercriminal. The hackers, who have become notorious…