Statement from Endeavor Energy Resources (via MRT): “Endeavor Energy Resources, L.P. (“Endeavor”), an oil and gas exploration and production company, discovered on Jan. 14 that earlier that day an unauthorized party, through a phishing scam, possibly gained access to unsecured protected health information stored in the corporate, Office 365 account of an Endeavor employee. After…
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Personal health information of nearly 2,900 Queen’s patients sent to wrong email address
The Star Advertiser reports: An employee sent an email containing personal health information for 2,852 patients of The Queen’s Medical Center and Queen’s North Hawaii Community Hospital to the wrong address on Feb. 3, Queen’s officials announced today. No Social Security numbers or financial account information was included, so patients’ financial security is not at…
City of Wayne, Nebraska hit by ransomware attack
NCN reports: A northeast Nebraska city is investigating an apparent hack into their systems. The City of Wayne announced Wednesday that they were the victims of a ransomware attack. In a Facebook post, city officials said all of their internet-based communications are down. Read more on 1011Now.com
Update: How many users were affected by the DISA breach?
Andrew Eversden has an update on a breach previously noted on this site: A breach of a system hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Department of Defense’s primary IT support agency, affected “approximately 200,000” users after a malicious actor may have gained access to names and Social Security numbers, according to a Pentagon…
IN: South Adams Schools hit with ransomware cyber-attack
WANE reports: The South Adams Schools district is dealing with a ransomware cyber-attack that took place overnight. Administrators informed staff Thursday morning according to a press release posted on the district website. All the district’s systems were shut down and normal operations won’t resume until further notice according to the release. Read more on WANE.
Butler County Community College recovering from ransomware attack
Ryan Saeler reports: Butler County Community College is well on the way to a complete recovery from a ransomware attack over the weekend that encrypted and disabled file systems. According to BC3 Director of Information Technology Matt Miller, no personal information of students, staff, faculty, or administrators was compromised during this incident. Read more on…