KWCH reports that Kansas Heart Hospital became a victim of a ransomware attack Wednesday night. The hospital’s president, Dr. Greg Duick, says the hackers never got access to patient information, but the attack did cause problems. And here’s an example of why paying ransom may not be a good idea. The hospital agreed to pay the small ransom…
Category: Malware
O’Charley’s suffers payment card network compromise, notifies customers
Dave Williams reports: Diners who ate at an O’Charley’s restaurant between March 18 and April 8 may have been affected by a data breach, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens warned Friday. Read more on Atlanta Business Chronicle. O’Charley’s statement, posted today on their web site, explains what happened and offers tips for guests to protect themselves. It appears that…
Court rejects Jetro’s argument in attempt to recoup fines and penalties over breaches
Long-time readers will remember the Restaurant Depot/Jetro breaches reported in 2011 and 2012. It appears that Jetro tried a novel approach to recovering some of the monies the breach cost them. As Dennis S. Klein, Jeffrey B. Goldberg, and Tyler Grove of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP explain, the court wasn’t buying their novel argument: … To allow its customers to…
House lifts block on Google-hosted apps, Yahoo Mail remains blacklisted
Dustin Volz reports: The U.S. House of Representatives’ information technology team this week reinstated access on its internet network to software applications hosted on a Google cloud service after the company addressed potential security fears, according to an email seen by Reuters. Yahoo Mail remains inaccessible, however, and has been blacklisted since the House Information…
NY: Hackers hit upstate municipalities with ransomware
In the context of a ransomware story, Brian Tumulty reports: A top Justice Department official told senators at a Wednesday hearing that more than 7,600 ransomware complaints were received by the Internet Crime Complaint Center operated by the FBI between 2005 and 2015. Nearly one-third involved incidents that occurred last year alone. “Victims reported losses totaling…
MI: Complete Chiropractic & Bodywork Therapies notified 4,082 patients after discovering malware
Complete Chiropractic & Bodywork Therapies in Michigan is notifying 4,082 patients after discovering that malware had been injected into their system in November, 2015. Here is there notification posted to their web site today: On March 19, 2016, Complete Chiropractic & Bodywork Therapies (“CCBT” or “we”) learned that CCBT’s server was accessed by unauthorized users –…