101.5 reports: Receiving a printed state document could prove to be a challenge because of an issue with the vendor used by the state. The state office of Office of Information Technology, which facilitates the service, said vendor R.R. Donnelley & Sons identified a “systems intrusion in its technical environment” and responded by shutting down…
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AR: Crawford County Assessor’s Office is the latest public entity to be hit by a cyberattack.
5News reports that an Arkansas county has been hit by a cyberattack, although the details are not yet clear: According to Crawford County Judge Dennis Gilstrap, a cyberattack was discovered at the County Assessors office on Monday, Dec. 27. Gilstrap said he is not exactly sure of the correct phrasing but employees discovered files missing…
VPN Solutions LLC suffered a ransomware attack two months ago. Some clients still can’t access patient data hosted on the service.
It appears that a ransomware incident involving VPN Solutions LLC may have affected a number of covered entities, although so far, DataBreaches.net has only identified two confirmed cases: Surgery Group SC On December 17, Surgery Group SC in Illinois notified HHS about an incident impacting 500 patients. DataBreaches.net interprets that 500 number as a marker…
Virtual Care Provider Sues Rivals, Alleging Data Theft, Patent Violation
Anuja Vaidya reports: MDsave, a direct-to-consumer virtual marketplace for healthcare services, has filed a lawsuit against three of its competitors alleging they stole and exploited MDSave’s protected data and intellectual property. The lawsuit accuses the defendants, Sesame, Green Imaging, and Tripment, of misappropriating MDSave’s protected data, falsely advertising their services, directly interfering with MDSave’s relationships with its…
Ransomware gang coughs up decryptor after realizing they hit the police
Lawrence Abrams reports: The AvosLocker ransomware operation provided a free decryptor after learning they encrypted a US government agency. Last month, a US police department was breached by AvosLocker, who encrypted devices and stole data during the attack. However, according to a screenshot shared by security researcher pancak3, after learning that the victim was a government…
Another T-Mobile cyberattack reportedly exposed customer info and SIMs
Mitchell Clark reports: T-Mobile has suffered another cyberattack after being rocked by a massive data breach in August. This time around, attackers accessed “a small number of” customers’ accounts, according to documents posted by The T-Mo Report. According to the report, customers either fell victim to a SIM swapping attack (which could allow someone to bypass SMS-powered two-factor authentication), had…