Lawrence Abrams reports: A US managed service provider NetStandard suffered a cyberattack causing the company to shut down its MyAppsAnywhere cloud services, consisting of hosted Dynamics GP, Exchange, Sharepoint, and CRM services. According to an email sent to MyAppsAnywhere customers shared on Reddit, the company detected signs of a cyberattack on Tuesday morning and quickly shut down…
Category: U.S.
Mailing and printing vendor issues breach notice on behalf of more than three dozen health plans
Update: On July 27, OneTouchPoint notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that a total of 1,073,316 people were impacted by their breach. In June, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield disclosed a breach involving their business associate, Matrix. Matrix had been notified by OneTouchPoint of a cyberattack that occurred between April 27 and April 28….
City of Detroit retirees data breach causes concern
Randy Wimbley and David Komer report: …. It’s what Weldon. a Detroit retiree, stumbled upon Wednesday morning after setting up her account on the City of Detroit retirement system’s new online program. “I saw several links called lists, and I clicked on one – and it was my name and this first list was eight…
Tenet Health cyberattack, monthlong outage led to $100M in ‘unfavorable impact’
Jessica Davis reports: The April “cybersecurity incident” that led to several weeks of downtime and service delays at Tenet Healthcare facilities caused $100 million in unfavorable impact. The hefty price tag was brought on by lost revenues from interruptions to business operations and remediation. Tenet is one of the largest hospital care service providers in…
Verified Twitter Vulnerability Exposes Data from 5.4 Million Accounts
Sven Taylor reports: A verified Twitter vulnerability from January has been exploited by a threat actor to gain account data allegedly from 5.4 million users. While Twitter has since patched the vulnerability, the database acquired from this exploit is now being sold on a popular hacking forum, posted earlier today. Back in January, a report…
RI: City of Newport advising past, current employees of potential data loss
Ryan Belmore reports: After an exhaustive investigation following the discovery of a suspicious email on one of the City’s internal networks, current and former municipal employees are being notified of a suspected security incident that may have left certain personal information compromised. […] Through the investigation, the City learned that there was unauthorized activity in…