Bill Toulas reports: According to a report by Le Monde, the Rouen University Hospital-Charles Nicolle is currently struggling to recuperate from a catastrophic ransomware attack that hit them almost a week ago. This is one of the largest hospitals in Northern France, with 2500 beds and 10000 personnel, so the disruption affects many hundreds of people…
Category: Malware
Louisiana OMV offices to remain closed Thursday morning
KPLC TV reports that the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles remains closed this morning following Monday’s ransomware attack. Yesterday, KPLC posted a list of all of the state offices that had been impacted by the attack: Office of Motor Vehicles Around 79 OMV offices went offline Monday due to the ransomware attacks and ceased any…
MO: Saint Francis Healthcare announces ransomware incident involving Ferguson Medical Group; not all records recovered
Updated Nov. 21: This incident has just been posted on HHS’s public breach tool as impacting 107,054 patients. Original Post: Marsha Heller of KAIT 8 reports that Saint Francis Healthcare System announced that Ferguson Medical Group (FMG) in Sikeston, Mo. was hit with a ransomware attack on September 20th. The following is the notice on…
Ransomware Bites 400 Veterinary Hospitals
Brian Krebs reports: National Veterinary Associates (NVA), a California company that owns more than 700 animal care facilities around the globe, is still working to recover from a ransomware attack late last month that affected more than half of those properties, separating many veterinary practices from their patient records, payment systems and practice management software. NVA…
Macy’s Customer Payment Info Stolen in Magecart Data Breach
Lawrence Abrams reports: Macy’s has announced that they have suffered a data breach due to their web site being hacked with malicious scripts that steal customer’s payment information. This type of compromise is called MageCart attack and consists of hackers compromising a web site so that they can inject malicious JavaScript scripts into various sections…
Ransomware hits Louisiana state government systems
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A ransomware infection today took down IT systems and websites managed by the Louisiana state government, Governor John Bel Edwards revealed in a series of tweets. “Today, we activated the state’s cybersecurity team in response to an attempted ransomware attack that is affecting some state servers. The Office of Technology Services identified…