Tanya Eiserer and Jason Trahan report: The email arrived just after midnight on a Sunday last August. Addressed to Dallas Independent School District trustees and other top officials, the anonymous authors said the district had been the victim of a massive cyberbreach. They claimed to have access and downloaded huge amounts of student grade information,…
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Indicators of Compromise Associated with LockBit 2.0 Ransomware and Additional Mitigations
On February 4, the FBI issued a Flash Alert: Indicators of Compromise Associated with LockBit 2.0 Ransomware Today, HHS’s Cybersecurity Program issued its companion HC3 alert. It says, in part: Impact to HPH Sector Although the LockBit 2.0 cybercrime gang claims to not attack healthcare organizations, all ransomware continues to act as a major cyber…
Potential data breach at Washington licensing department investigated
King5 reports: The Washington Department of Licensing (DOL) is investigating after it detected suspicious activity involving professional and occupational license data during the week of Jan. 24. The potential breach could have affected thousands of professionals, and the DOL took the precaution of shutting down the Professional Online Licensing and Regulatory Information System (POLARIS) to protect licensees’…
News Corp says it was hacked; believed to be linked to China
Eric Tucker and Frank Bajak report: News Corp, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said Friday that it had been hacked and had data stolen from journalists and other employees, and a cybersecurity firm investigating the intrusion said Chinese intelligence-gathering was believed behind the operation. The news company, whose publications and businesses include the New…
North Carolina Psychologist Sentenced for Medicaid Fraud Scheme Involving Minors
February 1, 2022 — RICHMOND, Va. – A Durham, North Carolina, clinical psychologist was sentenced today to 52 months in prison for defrauding Virginia Medicaid of at least $544,067.69 by creating false diagnoses and medical records for Medicaid recipients, mostly minors, and falsely representing to Medicaid that he was providing them mental health services. According…
Rhode Island attorney general subpoenas RIPTA, UnitedHealthcare over data breach
Edward Fitzpatrick reports: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha’s office has issued administrative subpoenas to the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority and UnitedHealthcare over a data breach that compromised the personal information of 22,000 people. The subpoenas, or civil investigative demand letters, say the attorney general’s office was notified on Dec. 23 of a “significant information…