Fiona Simmons reports: A tribal casino hotel in Minnesotahas become the latest victim of cybercrime targeting the gambling sector. Because of that, the property was forced to temporarily shut down many of its systems until the problem was resolved. The Junction Casino Hotel, a property in the Lower Sioux Indian Community, just suffered a cybersecurity breach. As…
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Oracle Health breach compromises patient data at US hospitals
Oracle Health is becoming this year’s poster child for how NOT to respond to an incident. Lawrence Abrams reports: A breach at Oracle Health impacts multiple US healthcare organizations and hospitals after a threat actor stole patient data from legacy servers. Oracle Health has not yet publicly disclosed the incident, but in private communications sent to…
Union County’s computer network breached, personal information accessed
John Beauge reports: Personal information including Social Security numbers may be at risk as the result of unauthorized access and acquisition of data stored on a Pennsylvania county’s computer network. “We determined that the cyber criminals took certain data from our network, which included personally identifiable information,” the Union County commissioners revealed Friday. “The affected…
Mission, Texas expects ransomware impact to last months
Matt Wilson reports: The city of Mission expects the fallout from a debilitating ransomware attack last month to have an impact for months. The city said so in correspondence last Thursday seeking an attorney general’s opinion allowing it to withhold contracts with outside cybersecurity experts and legal council asked for by the Progress Times through…
No need to hack when it’s leaking: OrthoMinds edition
Exposed database backups discovered and reported by researcher @JayelTee are now being reported in more mainstream news after OrthoMinds issued a press about the incident. Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A vendor of cloud-based orthodontic practice software is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that their data was exposed to the internet for 10 days last…
Almost one month after Brain Cipher claimed to have attacked them, Pulmonary Physicians of South Florida has yet to publicly confirm or deny any breach
Pulmonary Physicians of South Florida (PPSF) describe themselves as a group of experienced and highly qualified pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine physicians. “We provide comprehensive, state of the art diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the lungs in every hospital in Miami-Dade County, as well as in select hospitals in Broward and Monroe counties,”…