Updated 3/6/2021: Sandhills reported this incident to Maine as impacting 39,602 patients, total. Original Post: Sandhills Medical Foundation has posted a notice of a data security incident on their web site, reproduced below. Based on the dates and description, it appears that this is the Netgain Technology LLC data breach that has previously been noted…
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Idaho man charged with hacking into the computers of the City of Newnan and metro-Atlanta medical clinics
It appears that law enforcement has caught up with “Lifelock.” DataBreaches.net had reported exclusively on “Lifelock” back in April of 2018, and then again in June and July of 2018. At the time, I pointed out some of the striking similarities between “Lifelock” and “thedarkoverlord” (or the one I refer to as the first spokesperson…
CA: St. Agnes Medical Center patient data compromised in email breach at St. Alphonsus
Donald A. Promnitz reports: Saint Agnes Medical Center has experienced a cybersecurity incident that originated with a sister hospital in the Pacific Northwest. According to a media release from Saint Agnes, an employee of Oregon/Idaho-based Saint Alphonsus Health System had their email compromised by an unauthorized user. This individual used the employee’s account to send…
Spirit Airlines hit by Nefilim ransomware – Report
Marco De Felice reports: In these hours, the ransomware group Nefilim has published on the dark web a first part of data stolen from the American “ultra low cost” company Spirit Airlines. The first block contains over 40GB of data with over 33,000 files. Financial data, personal information of customers who purchased tickets to fly with…
Woodcreek Provider Services notifies more than 210,000 patients of Netgain Technology ransomware incident
Back in January, this site noted that a ransomware attack on Netgain Technology LLC had impacted Ramsey County. Previous coverage of the Netgain Technology attack had reported that Netgain had stated that they were victims of a ransomware attack on November 24th, 2020 and On December 4th, customers began receiving emails from Netgain stating that…
PA: Delco School District Missing ‘Millions,’ Suggests Hackers Took It
NBC10 reports: A law enforcement investigation is underway Friday after a school district reported it was missing an expected multimillion-dollar payment from the state, and a district official speculated it was due to hackers. The receiver of the Chester Upland School District, Juan Baughn, told the Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday that “millions” were lost due to a “cyber…