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SC school district latest victim to ransomware

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Dissent

Kendall Morris reports: A South Carolina school district is the latest victim to ransomware. Chester County School District posted on its Facebook page Monday that ransomware hit the district’s servers over the weekend. The post went on to say that no data has been taken or breached, and it has a specialist on site to…

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Hackers Behind Dridex Also Created FriedEx Ransomware

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Dissent

ESET reports: In a new blog post researchers from ESET researchers reveal that that the authors behind the infamous Dridex banking trojan are also behind the high-profile, sophisticated ransomware variant FriedEx. The ransomware was discovered in early July 2017 by Michael Gillespie. In August, it returned to the spotlight and made headlines by infecting NHS hospitals in Scotland. FriedEx…

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Ontario Progressive Conservative Party database hacked: Sources

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Dissent

CP24 reports that the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party’s internal database was locked up by a ransomware attack in early November. The incident is first being acknowledged now, it seems. The database contains the names, phone numbers and other personal information of over a million eligible voters in the province, as well as party supporters, donors…

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Allscripts Hit with Class-Action Complaint After Ransomware Attack

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Dissent

Can’t say that I’m surprised, not after reading that practices were having to turn patients away because they couldn’t access their patient records or billing records. Rajiv Leventhal reports that a class action complaint has been filed against Allscripts: It was just last week when electronic health record (EHR) vendor Allscripts suffered a ransomware attack…

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Westminster Ingleside King Farm Presbyterian Retirement Communities Notifies 5,228 Residents of Data Security Incident

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Dissent

ROCKVILLE, MD – January 19, 2018 – Westminster Ingleside King Farm Presbyterian Retirement Communities, Inc. (“Ingleside”) has become aware of a data security incident that may have involved the protected health information of our residents. Although at this time there is no evidence of any attempted or actual misuse of anyone’s information as a result…

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Medical practice turns away patients due to Allscripts incident

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Dissent

You read press releases and sometimes, you wonder whether the entity is downplaying the impact. Anyway, I had been semi-following the reporting on the Allscripts ransomware attack and was almost believing that this was limited impact. Almost. Until I read Mike Brookbank’s reporting. It begins: It is some of the most intimate information about ourselves….

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