John Le reports: Federal authorities are investigating the ransomware attack that caused a network outage at Allergy Partners locations in the mountains. The attack happened on Feb. 23 and continued for eight days as hackers wanted a king’s ransom of $1.75 million, according to a report filed with Asheville Police Department. Meanwhile, the staff was…
Category: Malware
Ransomware attacks of two more medical entities disclosed: one in U.S., one in Canada
It seems that every day, we learn of more ransomware attacks on healthcare entities. Here are two more. Arizona: Cochise Eye and Laser The most recent update to HHS’s public breach tool included an incident reported by RF Eye, P.C., dba Cochise Eye and Laser. On February 17, the Arizona entity posted a notice on…
UK: 15 schools in Nottinghamshire crippled by cyber attack
Bobby Hellard reports: Schools across Nottinghamshire have had to shut down their IT networks after a central trust that manages their systems was hit by a cyber attack. All 15 secondary schools that are part of the Nova Education Trust are currently unable to access emails or their websites, and are still unable to conduct lessons remotely. Read more on…
AllyAlign notifies 76,348 members and providers of ransomware attack
AllyAlign Health (AAH), a Medicare Advantage special needs plan administrator, recently notified 76,348 members and providers of an attempted ransomware attack. But how successful were the threat actors? And what could the Virginia firm figure out and what couldn’t they figure out based on their investigation? According to AAH’s notification letter, the attack occurred on…
Ripe for extortion? Navajo Nation hospital targeted by large-scale ransomware hack
Kevin Collier has a follow-up on the Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care cyberattack first reported by DataBreaches.net on February 16. From Collier’s reporting, it seems that those impacted by the breach have yet to be notified. As I’ve advocated many, many times: when PII or PHI are publicly dumped by criminals, taking 60 days to…
PA: Millersville University confirms external cyber attack on network
Millersville University confirmed that on Sunday, February 28 they received an external attack on their network. The external attack on the university’s network caused in-person and virtual classes to be canceled on Monday and Tuesday. Read more on CBS21. They are hoping that because the personally identifiable information on the server was encrypted, it might…