Defendant Also Attempted to Extort Approximately $150,000 From Major League Baseball Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced that JOSHUA STREIT, a/k/a “Josh Brody,” was charged with conducting intrusions…
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Update: Files that appear to be from Janesville School District appear on a Russian-language forum
Janesville School District in Wisconsin was fairly forthright this week about being hit by a ransomware attack. But while they denied receiving any ransom note, and initially claimed that no data had been accessed or destroyed, some data that appear to be from the ransomware attack were posted today on a popular Russian-language forum. A…
Seneca Family of Agencies discloses breach personal and medical data
Seneca Family of Agencies (formerly Seneca Center) describes their history as being founded in 1985 as a small Bay Area residential and day treatment program with a simple but powerful mission: to help children and families through the most difficult times of their lives. Since then, Seneca has expanded to provide a broad continuum of…
VT: Washington County school district looks into possible ransomware attack
WCAX reports: It’s still unclear whether personal student information was stolen during a system hack. The superintendent of the Washington Central Unified Union School District says in a letter Wednesday that its information systems were compromised. Interim Superintendent Jen Miller-Arsenault sent out a letter to families saying the district’s systems have been compromised as a…
Samaritan Daytop Village discloses breach
Samaritan Daytop Village, Inc. (“SDV”) has disclosed a breach that they first discovered on September 22. The not-for-profit, which started 60 years ago as an outpatient drug treatment services provider but expanded its scope, reports that they could not be sure whether data was actually viewed, exfiltrated, neither, or both. It is all still under…
Another law firm gets hit….. and yes, medical info was in its files
Today’s reminder that law firms have a wealth of personal, sensitive, and medically related info that is often not covered by HIPAA. Coughlin & Cerhart (C&G) law firm in New York experienced a security breach in early April. It is not clear from their press release whether this was a ransomware attack or not, and…