Spring Independent School District in Houston, Texas is closed for Thanksgiving week, but I wonder if any of their staff are working anyway in response to a claimed ransomware attack by Egregor threat actors. There is no date on Egregor’s site to show when they claim to have locked up the district’s files. And they…
Category: U.S.
Service provider to fertility clinics discloses malware attack
A press release from US Fertility (“USF”) follows. The Center for Fertility and Gynecology in California is not listed among USF entities in the press release. I mention that because the Center for Fertility and Gynecology still has not posted anything on their site or issued any press release about a ransomware attack that NetWalker…
Fairchild Medical Center server was exposing patient information for 4.5 years until a security firm alerted them
Ugh. Fairchild Medical Center had a misconfigured server exposing PHI from December 16, 2015 until they were alerted to the problem in late July by an unnamed security company who discovered the exposure. Here’s their press release, below. Note that this does not (yet) appear on HHS’s breach tool. YREKA, Calif., Nov. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — In…
PA: Part of Delaware County Computer System Down After Attacked By Hackers
Chad Pradelli and Cheryl Mettendorf report: Cybercriminals have attacked the Delaware County, Pennsylvania government network and taken it hostage. The criminals are demanding $500,000 to free it up. Sources told Action News, the cybercriminals gained control of the network on Saturday encrypting files, including police reports, payroll, purchasing, and other databases. Prosecution evidence, however, has…
Indiana justices agree to hear hospital records suit stemming from insider snooping case
Attempts to hold an entity liable for the wrongdoing of an employee has produced mixed results in the courts. Here’s a case in Indiana like that, below. As seen on The Indiana Lawyer: Justices last week granted transfer in the case of Community Health Network, Inc. v. Heather McKenzie, et al., 20S-CT-648. Heather McKenzie’s medical records…
Is Rand McNally just routinely “upgrading systems” or are they dealing with an attack?
A notice on their web site says that Rand McNally is upgrading their systems: Oh really? Why didn’t their site just admit what they wrote in email: “Dear Valued Customer, Rand McNally recently discovered a disruption to certain portions of our computer network. We commenced an immediate investigation that included taking certain systems offline and…