NOTE: This post is no longer being updated. Please see this article for updates on this incident. Update of May 17: Add Ascension Standish Hospital (1705} and Ascension St. Joseph Hospital (5807). Update of May 12: Add Walmart to your list of covered entities who had patients impacted by the CaptureRx breach. CaptureRx notified them…
Category: Malware
AU: Avaddon threat attackers demand ransom from NSW Labor
NSW Labor is Australia’s Labor Party (New South Wales Branch). Now Avaddon threat actors claim that they have hacked them and stolen data. NSW Labor, the company does not want to cooperate with us, so we give them 240 hours to communicate and cooperate with us. If this does not happen before the time counter…
UK: College cyber-attack is still causing problems
Murray Macleod reports: A major cyber-attack on the University of the Highlands and Islands has still not been resolved — two months after it was first reported. Police investigations into the ransom demand — which was rejected and subsequently triggered a series of network problems — is continuing. The size of the demand is not being…
Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County notifies more than 330,000 patients of breach
On March 5, Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County in New York (“OADC”) became aware of suspicious activity involving its systems. Their investigation determined that an unauthorized actor gained access to certain OADC systems on or about March 1, 2021, encrypted files, and then claimed to have removed and/or viewed certain files. According to the notification…
A breach of patient information included limited data on 17,655 patients of Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare.
WKTV reports that Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare has disclosed that almost 18,000 of its patients were impacted by a breach at its business associate, CaptureRx. The breach occurred on February 6, and Faxton was notified on March 30. Investigation revealed that the types of ePHI included: First Name, Last Name, Date of Birth, Prescription Information,…
Worldwide phishing attacks deliver three new malware strains
Sergiu Gatlan reports: A global-scale phishing campaign targeted worldwide organizations across an extensive array of industries with never-before-seen malware strains delivered via specially-tailored lures. The attacks hit at least 50 orgs from a wide variety of industries in two waves, on December 2nd and between December 11th and 18th, according to a Mandiant report published today. UNC2529,…