Jenny Wagner reports: The Ambulatory Surgery Center at St. Mary is alerting approximately 13,000 patients about a recent data breach involving their personal information. In letters sent to patients last week, the center, which provides outpatient surgical and diagnostic procedures, explained that staff members discovered the breach June 1 when they noticed encrypted files on…
Category: Malware
IoT Medical Devices: A Prescription for Disaster
Tom Spring reports: Late last month, TrapX Labs’ security team spotted an uptick in the prevalence of a new more virulent strain of malware targeting hospitals and their IoT equipment. Researchers discovered attackers targeting unpatched medical equipment running Windows XP and Windows 7 with variations of attacks such as the Conficker worm, long thought obsolete. The…
Omni Hotels & Resorts notifies guests of payment card breach
Update: It appears that more than 50,000 have been affected. Original post: From the notice posted on Omni Hotels & Resorts web site today: Notice of Data Breach Message to Our Valued Customers: Omni values the relationship we have with our guests and wants you to be aware of an incident that may involve your…
NC: Pink Hill pastor reports ransomware locked up files
Matt Byliss reports: A pastor said hackers locked him out of his computer on Tuesday, demanding money in exchange for files. Andy Wood from Potters Hill Missionary Baptist Church said hackers demanded over $700 to unlock the computer, without even guaranteeing he would get his files back. He faced the possibility of losing over 700…
Update: More than 1,000 Wendy’s stores were compromised
Remember when Wendy’s updated its breach disclosure in May to report that it was 300 stores impacted? They subsequently revealed that they had found two types of malware and the number of impacted stores could be “considerably higher.” Well, now it’s 1,025 stores. Here’s their statement from today: As we have reported over the past several…
Chicago man pleads guilty in celebrity iCloud data breach
Narinda Purber reports: A 28 year-old Chicago man has pleaded guilty to using phishing scams to illegally access more than 300 iCloud and Gmail accounts, around 30 of which belonged to celebrities. The high profile iCloud data breach, which was dubbed ‘celebgate’, resulted in the leak of nude photographs in 2014. However, it is important to note that the defendant…