DeeDee Sun reports: The Ballard Northwest Senior Center found itself in the bull’s-eye of ransomware attack, with its server wiped just weeks before their biggest fundraiser of the year. The senior center says it doesn’t know if it was targeted, or if the ransomware attack hit them at random, but now it’s struggling to get…
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Cyberattacker demands ransom from Northern Colorado utility
Pat Ferrier reports: When employees of the Fort Collins Loveland Water District and South Fort Collins Sanitation District got to work the morning of Feb. 11, they were locked out of technical and engineering data and drawings stored on their computers. The districts had fallen victim to a ransomware cyber attack, the second in two years, General Manager…
Carmel Unified School District notifies employees of phishing incident
Ouch. This isn’t a W-2 phishing attack, but in some ways, it seems even worse. Carmel Unified School District notified employees that a successful phishing attack had gained access to an employee’s email account that had “a limited number of documents.” Those documents may have contained employees’ or dependents’ information: Employee social security numbers Spouses’…
Thousands of Arizonans hit in Medicaid agency’s data breach
Jessica Suerth reports: Thousands of Arizonans were affected by a data breach earlier this year that targeted the state’s Medicaid agency, it was announced Monday. The breach of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System affected more than 3,100 individuals when their IRS 1095-B forms were delivered to the wrong addresses. Read more on KTAR.
Another business associate breach, another gap to notification of patients
So here’s yet another breach with what seems like a long delay to notification. In this case, Re-Solutions, a division of RSC Insurance Brokerage in Massachusetts, is a business associate to healthcare providers. On August 23, 2018, an employee’s laptop was stolen. In its disclosure letter, the laptop was described as “password-protected,” but there was…
Hundreds of immigrant recruits risk ‘death sentence’ after Army bungles data, lawmaker says
Today’s reminder that some “human error” breaches can put lives at risk. Alex Horton reports: Army officials inadvertently disclosed sensitive information about hundreds of immigrant recruits from nations such as China and Russia, in a breach that could aid hostile governments in persecuting them or their families, a lawmaker and former U.S. officials said. A…