If folks in Los Angeles were upset about the ransomware incident involving the Los Angeles Unified School District, they might want to buckle up before reading this: It appears that LockBit 3.0 has managed to compromise and exfiltrate data from the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA). Municipal housing authorities collect and…
Category: U.S.
Ex-Employee Arrested For Extortion, Cyberstalking
The Johnstown County Report reports: A former employee at a Selma animal hospital has been charged with extortion and cyberstalking. Eduardo Figueroa, age 40, of S. Sussex Drive, Smithfield was arrested December 14 at his residence by Smithfield Police. Stolen medical records from the animal hospital were also recovered at his home, police said. On…
A hospital’s patient data was stolen in June and they should have known it. Why are they claiming they didn’t know?
Six months after DataBreaches reported that Fitzgibbon Hospital in Missouri had been the victim of a ransomware attack by Daixin Team, the hospital has finally disclosed the incident. In a notification, the hospital claims that they detected the unauthorized access on June 6. But then they immediately make a demonstrably false statement. They state, “Though…
NC: Monarch notifies HHS of breach, but where are the details and notice?
On September 1, a listing on a dark web site by a group calling themselves Don#t_Leaks named MonarchNC as a victim. The listing did not appear for long. The only “proof” offered at the time was a filetree and a screencap of what might be an index of an inbox showing monarchnc.org domain in email…
OH: Security breach at software provider affects software in registrar’s office and other vendor clients (UPDATED)
UPJobNews reports: Lawyers, title company workers and citizens trying to register documents before the end of 2022 found they can’t for now thanks to a security breach affecting the Columbiana County Recorder’s office. No other Columbiana County offices or servers are affected. County Recorder Jim Armeni Sr. announced the issue Thursday, posted a note on…
Law firm Proskauer sues ex-COO, claiming data theft (UPDATED)
Reuters reports: U.S. law firm Proskauer Rose on Tuesday sued its former chief operating officer, alleging he stole a trove of confidential information about the firm’s finances, lawyer compensation and clients before leaving his job there this month. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, claims Jonathan O’Brien deceived Proskauer staff members into allowing him…