In August 2020, DataBreaches reported that the Maze ransomware gang had added Ventura Orthopedics to their name-and-shame leak site. At the time, Ventura did not respond to inquiries about whether they would confirm or deny the claims. And they did not respond to other inquiries from DataBreaches when the Conti ransomware gang subsequently listed 1,850…
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NY Financial Regulator Rolls Out Updated Cybersecurity Standards
Skye Witley reports: New York regulators assigned heightened cybersecurity requirements to banks, insurers, and financial services providers based in the state with the release of finalized rule amendments Wednesday. Covered entities will have to use multifactor authentication, expand cybersecurity governance duties, and conduct consistent threat testing under the regulation updated by the New York Department of Financial…
Exclusive: Daixin Team claims responsibility for attacks affecting Canadian hospitals, starts leaking data
Daixin Team is now claiming responsibility for — and leaking data from — an attack that has significantly impacted five Canadian hospitals in Ontario. TransForm Shared Service Organization provides IT, supply chain, and accounts payable services to Bluewater Health, Windsor Regional Hospital, Hotel Dieu Grace, Erie Shores Healthcare, Hospice of Windsor-Essex, and the Chatham-Kent…
Exclusive: Advarra hacked, threat actors threatening to leak data (1)
Advarra describes itself as providing integrated solutions to safeguard trial participants, empowering clinical sites, ensuring compliance, and optimizing research performance for thousands of sponsors, contract research organizations, institutions, academic medical centers, and research consortia that it services. On or about October 25, Advarra was hacked and data was exfiltrated. According to one of the people…
HHS announces its first settlement in a ransomware case: Doctors’ Management Services
From HHS, this interesting press announcement: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) with Doctors’ Management Services, a Massachusetts medical management company that provides a variety of services, including medical billing and payor credentialing. The…
Colorado GOP Wants Inquiry into Delayed Notification of Data Breach
David Migoya reports: Colorado House Republican leaders on Monday called for an investigation into why Colorado’s higher education agency allegedly failed to timely report a massive data breach this summer. In a two-page letter hand-delivered to Gov. Jared Polis and Attorney General Phil Weiser, five state representatives also urged an inquiry into why thousands potentially…