Not sure how I missed this one, but I did, it seems. Note that CHI Health stands for Catholic Health Initiative. They are a non-profit organization headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. On September 28, Jessica Wade reported: A CHI Health clinic sent letters to patients Friday informing them that their personal information may have been exposed…
Category: Malware
McAlisters Deli, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Schlotzsky’s Notice of Data Breach to Consumers
October 2, 2019 Notice of Payment Card Security Incident California residents please click here McAlister’s Deli values the relationship we have with our customers and understands the importance of protecting payment card information. We initially notified our customers on August 20, 2019 that we were investigating a payment card security incident involving some of our…
DCH Healthcare Systems pays hacker to end ransomware attack
Pat Duggins reports a follow-up on the DCH Hospital system ransomware incident that resulted in the hospitals turning patients away: The DCH Hospital system in west central Alabama may be accepting new patients as soon as Monday after resolving a ransomware attack. The Associated Press and the Tuscaloosa News report the three-hospital network paid a…
Hacker shuts down Spanish city’s computer sytem and demands bitcoin ransom
AFP reports: A hacker has taken over the computer system of the southern Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera and is demanding a ransom paid in bitcoin to unlock it, local officials said Friday. The cyber attack, which has caused outages of services offered through the city’s website, began on Tuesday night, a municipal…
PA: Bradford City Hall nearly back to normal after ransomware incident
Marcie Schellhammer reports: Bradford City Hall has been up and running all week after the ransomware attack last weekend. Mayor Tom Riel said Friday the replacement computers are in place. “The computers are fully operational with just a few minor details to be worked out in the coming days,” he said. “We didn’t lose any…
GA: Cornelia fends off third ransomware attack of the year, upgrades firewall
Rob Moore reports: A ransomware attack on City of Cornelia’s computerized billing system last week resulted in a day of lost productivity, but city leaders are taking steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again. “We did not get to the point of like Atlanta where they actually held us [for] ransom,” City Manager Donald Anderson…