Jacob Rascon reports: With the help of Tomball Police, the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights is investigating the illegal dumping of thousands of medical records. The more than 20 boxes of records belonged to former Today’s Vision patients and employees, including their Social Security numbers. Read more on…
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Equifax just became the first company to have its outlook downgraded for a cyber attack
Kate Fazzini reports: Moody’s has just slashed its rating outlook on Equifax, the first time cybersecurity issues have been cited as the reason for a downgrade. Moody’s lowered Equifax’s outlook from stable to negative on Wednesday, as the credit monitoring company continues to suffer from the massive 2017 breach of consumer data. “We are treating…
WannaCry? Hundreds of US schools still haven’t patched servers
Sean Gallagher reports: … cities aren’t the only highly vulnerable targets to be found by would-be attackers. There are hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected Windows systems in the United States that still appear to be vulnerable to an exploit of Microsoft Windows’ Server Message Block version 1 (SMB v. 1) file sharing protocol, despite repeated…
Louisville Regional Airport Authority hit by ‘ransomware’ attack
WDRB has only a short item on this, but reportedly no ransom has been paid and the airport is restoring from backup. Operations and security systems were reportedly not impacted.
Oregon Construction Contractors Board reports data breach
KTVZ reports: The Oregon Construction Contractors Board said Friday it has discovered a security breach involving 8,013 online contractor accounts. Unauthorized individuals gained access to some contractors’ usernames and related password information. The incident occurred between Oct. 27 and Oct. 29, 2018, and was discovered on April 12, 2019, during a routine audit conducted by…
Analysis of ransomware used in Baltimore attack indicates hackers needed ‘unfettered access’ to city computers
Ian Duncan and Christine Zhang report: Officials in the eastern North Carolina city of Greenville arrived to work one morning in early April to find the files on some 800 of their computers locked up. More than five weeks later, they’re still recovering from the debilitating cyberattack. The city of around 92,000 realized April 10…