Discovery at Home provides senior home healthcare services to seniors in Florida and Texas. On July 31, they issued a website notice about a phishing incident they discovered on June 1. As they describe it, the scheme resulted in the transmittal of personal health information to an unauthorized third-party sender. Elements of personal information that may…
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MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley provides notice of ransomware attack last November (1)
On December 22, 2022 DataBreaches added MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley to our non-public breach worksheet. Based on information at that time from Hive threat actors, it appeared that the non-profit Texas mental health and substance abuse treatment provider’s files had been locked on November 5. Their listing on Hive’s leak site was a sure…
Cyberattacks And Compromise of Attorney Client Confidences
Scott Greenfield comments on a ruling previously noted on this site: In an underappreciated ruling, District of Columbia Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the multinational law firm Covington & Burling must comply with an SEC subpoena requiring the firm to give up the names of clients, publicly-traded corporations, in order for the SEC to investigate whether…
School Accreditation Organization Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Information on Students, Parents, and Teachers Online
Seen on WebsitePlanet: Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to WebsitePlanet a non-password protected database that contained 680k records. Upon further investigation, it was identified that these records were related to educational institutions. Documents inside the database suggested that it belonged to the Southern Association of Independent Schools, Inc (SAIS). In my many years as…
Attacked by Black Basta, BankCard USA paid ransom.
Marco A. De Felice of SuspectFile (aka @amvinfe) reports that BankCard USA (BUSA) recently paid the Black Basta ransomware group $50,000 ransom. But if BUSA hoped to keep the breach and payment out of the public eye, they should sit down before they read SuspectFile’s reporting, because it is going to make them sad. BankCard…
Arizona man who extorted Georgia Tech sentenced to prison
ATLANTA, July 27 – Ronald Bell has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for extorting Georgia Tech. Bell recruited a security guard to falsely claim that the guard witnessed an assault by its basketball coach in exchange for part of the extortion payout he expected to receive from the university. “Ronald…