Yesterday, WTMJ reported: Molson Coors was the target of a cyber attack, the company confirmed to WTMJ on Wednesday. The brewery experienced a “systems outage due to a cyber-security incident,” according to Adam Collins, the company’s chief communications and corporate affairs officer. While some outlets questioned whether the attack might be related to the Microsoft…
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Walmart: Notice of Data Security Incident
On February 16, 2021, Walmart was informed by one of its suppliers that a data hosting service they used was compromised on January 20, 2021. An unauthorized party accessed the service and stole records from that service provider. Some of those records included information about a confined number of Walmart pharmacy patients. Walmart’s information systems…
Cyberattack hits NJ employee portal containing sensitive data
Dustin Racioppi reports: Hackers targeted the accounts of about 200 state employees in a cyberattack on a government portal that holds sensitive personal and financial data such as Social Security numbers, birthdays and pension information, according to state and union officials. The late-January attack was disclosed to employees and their accounts were “immediately disabled,” a spokeswoman for…
How do you make a data breach even worse? You notify the victims that they are dead.
The headline says it all: Some Treasure Valley residents receiving letters from Saint Alphonsus saying they are dead The situation started routinely enough — an employee’s email account was compromised. In this case, the access was used to send out spam. Somehow, however, in the process of sending breach notifications, there was a mail merge…
Cyberattack: Houston-area school district investigates troubling messages sent during technology breach
As if Texas didn’t have enough problems already… Tierra Smith reports: Magnolia ISD is responding to a technology breach that occurred Sunday afternoon, school officials confirmed. The district said the breach of unauthorized messages included social media, text messages, emails and phone calls. Many of the alleged messages, some of which were racist and directly…
Trillium Community Health Plan members impacted by Accellion breach
DataBreaches.net has found a second HIPAA-covered entity that has revealed that it was affected by the Accellion attack by CLOP threat actors. On February 25, Trillium Community Health Plan in Oregon disclosed that they had been notified by Accellion on January 25 of the cyberattack that impacted dozens of Accellion’s clients. In Trillium’s case, the…