Dalondo Moultrie reports: A data security incident has Guadalupe County officials on high alert and working together and with outside agencies to determine risk factors for county employees and residents. County information technology leaders learned about the incident early Saturday and quickly moved the county into defense mode, County Judge Kyle Kutscher said. The county…
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Updates to the MCG Health Breach Incident
For initial coverage, read this post. Updates: A threat actor, “Twister Canyon,” claims that MCG Health has made false claims about the incident. Their claims can be found in the Comments section under the original post. MCG Health was asked to respond to their claims but have not replied as of this June 14 posting….
GA: Funds stolen from Floyd County Schools in cyberattack, police investigating
John Bailey and John Druckenmiller reported this on June 8: The Floyd County school system confirmed on Wednesday reports of a cyberattack, discovered Monday, that resulted in $194,672.76 being stolen from the school system. “Floyd County Schools has been made aware of a spear phishing incident, which is a targeted email attack pretending to be…
Analysis of the Fourth Circuit’s Opinion in In re Marriott International, Inc.
Gargi Chaudhuri and James Masella, III of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP write: On April 21, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the dismissal by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland of allegations that Marriott International had violated federal securities laws by omitting from…
Yuma Regional Medical Center notifying approximately 700,000 patients of ransomware attack
KYMA reports: Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) said it mailed letters to thousands of patients whose information may have been involved in a recent cybersecurity incident. On April 25, 2022, YRMC identified a ransomware incident affecting some internal systems. Upon detecting the incident, YRMC shared with News 11 it took immediate action, taking systems offline,…
WA: MCG Health notifies patients and health plan members of data breach (updated)
Seattle-based MCG Health, LLC (“MCG”) provides patient care guidelines to providers and health care plans. According to a notice on their website that was also issued as a press release yesterday, on March 25, 2022, they determined that an unauthorized party had previously obtained personal information about some patients and members of certain MCG customers….