Jessica Shirey reports: A cyberattack infected all of Clearfield County’s servers and 15 percent of its computers over the weekend. Commissioner John A. Sobel, board chairman, Tony Scotto and Dave Glass issued the following public statement Tuesday: “Clearfield County recently detected and is responding to malware activity on its computer network. As soon as we…
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Networking giant Ubiquiti alerts customers of potential data breach
Lawrence Abrams reports: Networking device maker Ubiquiti has announced a security incident that may have exposed its customers’ data. Ubiquiti is a very popular networking device manufacturer best known for its UniFi line of wired and wireless network products and a cloud management platform. Today, Ubiquiti began emailing customers to change their passwords and enable…
Jefferson Healthcare hit by ‘phishing’ cyber attack
Brian Kelley reports: The personal information of roughly 2,550 people was compromised by a “phishing” attack on the email account of an employee at Jefferson Healthcare, the organization announced Monday. The information stolen may have included the full names of individuals, as well as their dates of birth, phone numbers, home addresses, and health insurance…
OH: Court dates set in Middletown skydiving data theft case
Ed Richter reports: One former Middletown city employee has been arraigned on charges in Middletown Municipal Court in connection with the alleged hacking, corporate economic espionage and illegal recordings of Start Skydiving at the Middletown Regional Airport. Former airport manager Daniel Dickten, 67, of Goshen, was arraigned Dec. 31 on charges of unauthorized use of…
Ransomware attack hits short line rail operator OmniTRAX
Nate Tabak reports: Colorado-based short line rail operator and logistics provider OmniTRAX was hit by a recent ransomware attack and data theft that targeted its corporate parent, Broe Group. OmniTRAX confirmed to FreightWaves that the cyberattack had occurred after the Conti ransomware gang posted stolen data from a leak site. The company, however, provided no…
Leon Medical Centers issues statement about ransomware attack
Leon Medical Centers (LMC) in Florida has issued a press release about the ransomware attack it experienced, and that DataBreaches.net has reported previously. In our most recent report, we noted that Conti threat actors had dumped protected health information for numerous patients, while claiming that they still had more files from Leon that they would dump….