Brendan Pierson reports: A federal judge has narrowed a lawsuit brought by patients against hospital operator Universal Health Services Inc over a data breach last year, finding that merely having their data exposed did not give patients standing to sue but that one plaintiff could go forward with a claim that he was harmed because…
Category: U.S.
Trailer maker Utility targeted in “cyber event”
Nate Tabak reports: Utility Trailer Manufacturing, one of the largest U.S. producers of trailers for the trucking industry, was targeted in an apparent ransomware attack that exposed personal information of numerous employees. The California-based company told FreightWaves that it had “suffered a cyber event” that disrupted some systems temporarily. The company disclosed the incident after…
Student health insurance carrier Guard.me suffers a data breach
Lawrence Abrams reports: Student health insurance carrier guard.me has taken their website offline after a vulnerability allowed a threat actor to access policyholders’ personal information. guard.me is one of the world’s largest insurance carriers specializing in providing health insurance to students while traveling or studying abroad in another country. Read more on BleepingComputer.
NC: Update to Allergy Partners ransomware incident
Back in February, there were media reports that Allergy Partners in North Carolina had been impacted by a ransomware attack on February 23. The threat actors, who were not identified, reportedly demanded $1.75 million ransom. The medical practice was able to restore services in 8 days and noted that they had not paid any ransom….
UT: Astro Team threat actors dump patient-related files allegedly from Eduro Healthcare
Eduro Healthcare is a Salt Lake City, Utah based company providing transitional care, skilled nursing and rehabilitation services, and assisted living. Eduro provides an email address to use for contact. Sadly, it does not work. Nor do they seem to respond to contact form messages. Or emails to their executives. On April 7, a relatively…
D.C. police identify man who allegedly reposted data stolen from police computers
Tom Jackman reports: D.C. police on Monday posted a photo of a man they believe may have reposted data that was stolen from the department in the recent hack of their computer system. Later Monday, the police tweeted that they had identified the man. But the police declined to discuss the man further, beyond a Twitter…