Over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, SHI was the target of a coordinated and professional malware attack. Thanks to the quick reactions of the security and IT teams at SHI, the incident was swiftly identified and measures were enacted to minimize the impact on SHI’s systems and operations. These preventative measures included taking some…
Category: U.S.
North Korea is targeting hospitals with ransomware, U.S. agencies warn
Kevin Collier reports: The U.S. government said Wednesday that North Korea is behind a recent strain of ransomware cyberattacks on hospitals and other health care facilities. The warning is the starkest alert to date that North Korea, which the U.S. has long alleged uses its hackers to raise money for state programs like its nuclear weapons…
VCU Health identifies and addresses a 16-year privacy breach
Soap operas are almost always long-running. Privacy breaches should not be, and 16 years is a very long time for a problem to go undetected. But it appears that’s what happened to the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (“VCU Health”). Last month, VCU Health disclosed that they had recently learned that beginning as early as…
Claire’s data breach $350K class action settlement
Top Class Actions reports that there is a settlement in litigation stemming from a data breach involving customer information in a 2020 breach that affected some customers of Claire’s accessories stores. For approximately two months in 2020, malware compromised payments made on the retailer’s website. The case is Julia Rossi, et al v. Claire’s Stores,…
Ca: College of the Desert victimized once again by ransomware; most online services currently down
Jonathan Horwitz reports: The College of the Desert has fallen victim to a second successful malware attack against its online network in as many years. Currently, most of the college’s online services are offline, its website is not available and at least some employees are lacking access to their email accounts, COD public information officer Nicholas Robles confirmed…
EXCLUSIVE: Marriott hacked again? Yes. Here’s what we know.
On June 28, DataBreaches received a message from an unrecognized sender. The subject was: “Breach of Marriott hotels! Very Important!” DataBreaches’ first thought was, “Seriously? Is this yet another breach involving Marriott or are some kids just trying to leak old data?” As it turned out, this was, in fact, a new breach. But how…