Kate McGee reports: More than a week after Stephen F. Austin State University was hit with a cyberattack, leaders at the public university in the East Texas Pineywoods are still working to fully restore email and other online services for the 11,600-student campus. University spokesperson Graham Garner confirmed Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation…
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Vincera Institute notifies patients after ransomware attack
Vincera Institute in Philadelphi is notifying patients of a ransomware incident that occurred on April 29. From their press release, below, it sounds like they have not confirmed nor ruled out unauthorized access, exfiltration, or misuse of data. Vincera reported the incident to HHS on June 20 as four entities: Vincera Core Physicians reported that…
Oreo cookie maker says crooks gobbled up staff info
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: Mondelez International has warned 51,000 of its past and present employees that their personal information has been stolen from a law firm hired by the Oreo and Ritz cracker giant. To be clear, the miscreants didn’t infiltrate Mondelez’s IT estate: they broke into Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP‘s network. And as…
Ransomware affects emergency radiology workflows
June 20, 2023 — Ransomware attacks have a significant effect on emergency radiology workflows, as well as on acute care delivery and the personal well-being of healthcare providers, according to a study published June 15 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Researchers led by Liselotte van Boven, MD, from VieCuri Medical Center in Venlo, the Netherlands, found…
FTC Says Genetic Testing Company 1Health Failed to Protect Privacy and Security of DNA Data and Unfairly Changed its Privacy Policy
The Federal Trade Commission charged that the genetic testing firm 1Health.io left sensitive genetic and health data unsecured, deceived consumers about their ability to get their data deleted, and changed its privacy policy retroactively without adequately notifying and obtaining consent from consumers whose data the company had already collected. As part of a proposed settlement with the…
Iowa’s largest school district confirms ransomware attack, data theft
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Des Moines Public Schools, Iowa’s largest school district, confirmed today that a ransomware attack was behind an incident that forced it to take all networked systems offline on January 9, 2023. While the school district also received a ransom demand following the attack from an unnamed ransomware group, the ransom has not…