Hiawatha Bray reports: To pay or not to pay? For organizations victimized by ransomware, that’s a tricky question that may not have a good answer. A report from the Boston tech security firm Cybereason argues that paying off cybercriminals may not get businesses off the hook. In a global survey of nearly 1,300 security professionals, two-thirds said…
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GA: Savannah hospital system experiences outage after ransomware attack
Molly Curley, Alex Bozarjian The St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C) hospital system in Savannah was the victim of a ransomware attack Thursday morning. WSAV spoke with a patient who says all computers went down around 4 a.m., and nurses have been forced to keep track of medications with a pen and paper. Read more on WAVY.
Reproductive Biology Associates and My Egg Bank notify 38,538 patients of ransomware incident
Reproductive Biology Associates and its affiliate My Egg Bank North America issued a breach notification involving a ransomware incident that impacted the Atlanta entities. According to the notification submitted to Maine’s Attorney General’s Office and similar statements posted on their web sites, the entities first became aware of a potential data incident on April 16,…
Lightfoot, Franklin & White notifies clients of ransomware incident
Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC is a law firm based in Birmingham, Alabama that handles commercial litigation, product liability, professional liability, white-collar criminal, and other legal matters. In a copy of a notification obtained by DataBreaches.net, they forthrightly informed affected clients that there had been a ransomware incident: On April 17, 2021, we learned of…
Some patients are first finding out about Blackbaud ransomware incident now
Little Hill Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Alcoholics, Inc. d/b/a Alina Lodge in New Jersey is first notifying patients whose data was involved in the Blackbaud ransomware incident early last year. From a report filed by their external counsel, it seems that Blackbaud first notified Alina in October, 2020. Between then and April 19, 2021,…
Criminals are mailing hacked Ledger devices to steal cryptocurrency
Lawrence Abrams reports: Scammers are sending fake replacement devices to Ledger customers exposed in a recent data breach that are used to steal cryptocurrency wallets. Ledger has been a popular target by scammers lately with rising cryptocurrency prices and the popularity of hardware wallets to secure cryptofunds. Read more on BleepingComputer.