Stephanie Gailhard reports that Hard Times Café in Rockville, Maryland and 8 other businesses got hit with ransomware on Sunday. The ransom demand for the restaurant? $10,000 according to owner Bob Howard. But he says he’s not paying.
Category: U.S.
Mercy Iowa City and Mercy Clinic notify patients after alerted to malware by law enforcement (updated)
Update of March 28: This breach reportedly affected 15,000 patients. Public notice from Mercy Iowa City, dated March 25: Notice to our Patients Regarding a Privacy Incident Mercy Iowa City (“Mercy”) is committed to protecting the security and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On…
JASACare notifies 1,154 patients of breach
HIPAA Journal reports: JASACare, a New York-based home care services provider, has reported it has been attacked by hackers who managed to gain access to its email system. The attack is believed to have been conducted in order to steal money from corporate accounts by making fraudulent bank transfers. However, as a consequence of the breach of…
A.G. Schneiderman Announces Settlement After Social Security Numbers Of Over 500 Job Applicants Posted Online
The NYS Attorney General’s has announced a settlement following a data breach I never heard about. And I’m guessing that some people will grumble that the monetary penalty is too light. NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with Doritex Corp. and its website developer Kallus Opraments, involving the disclosure…
Security education outfit EC-Council dishes out ransomware online
First it was a hospital serving up ransomware to web site visitors. Now the website of the EC-Council, who are responsible for the Ethical Hacker certification, is reportedly serving up the Angler exploit kit to infect PCs. And as we heard with the Norfolk General Hospital, it seems to be difficult to notify them and get a response from the…
NY: Focused Technologies Imaging Services to pay more than $3 million for illegal and covert outsourcing of 16 million fingerprint cards to India for data entry
New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott and Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that an Albany-area tech company and its principals will pay more than $3 million in fines for violating State contract security protocols by outsourcing millions of fingerprint records containing sensitive personal information to a company in India for data…