Bill Rankin reports: In the spring of 2016, a cyber thief calling himself the “Dark Overlord” hacked into the databases of a Clarke County medical clinic and emerged with the personal information of an estimated 200,000 patients. The Athens Orthopedic Clinic refused to pay the hacker’s ransom and advised current and former patients to set…
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Texas DIR issues update on coordinated ransomware attack on multiple government agencies
The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) is leading the response to a ransomware attack against entities across Texas. Below is an update as of August 20, 2019, at approximately 3:00 p.m. central time. The number of confirmed impacted entities has been reduced to twenty-two. As of the time of this release, responders have engaged…
Coordinated Ransomware Attack Hits at Least 20 Local Governments In Texas
Trey Shaar reports: A coordinated ransomware attack has affected at least 20 local government entities in Texas, the Texas Department of Information Resources said. It would not release information about which local governments have been affected. The department said the Texas Division of Emergency Management is coordinating support from other state agencies through the Texas State…
Grays Harbor Community Hospital and Harbor Medical Group notifying 85,000 patients of ransomware incident; Not all EMR have been recovered
Back in July, this site noted a media report about a ransomware attack on Grays Harbor Community Hospital. At the time, and although the incident had first been reported in the media on June 19, the hospital was still not disclosing a lot of details. Yesterday, the hospital issued a formal notice about the breach,…
Two more leaks expose Indian citizens’ personal and medical information
This week, DataBreaches.net learned that a civil court in Bengaluru had issued a preliminary junction prohibiting this site from publishing anything about a data security incident involving 1to1Help.net. This site received notice of the injunction five days after the article appeared. At the same time, I learned that 1to1Help.net had filed a criminal complaint against…
Education software glitch gives predators easy access to school kids
Christopher Harris reports: Australia’s top cyber safety boss has warned that strangers can directly contact students via a privacy glitch in education software, which is available to every public school student in NSW. The loophole allows predators to verify a student’s email using Google Hangouts and then contact them directly or by sharing a Google…