Jordan Robertson and Riley Griffin report: On March 15, 2020, just days after the US declared a national emergency because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the computer network for the US Department of Health and Human Services briefly vanished from the internet. In public remarks the following day, HHS Secretary Alex Azar attributed the 10-minute outage to a cyberattack but…
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Records reveal new information about Sweetwater Union High School District ransomware incident
Melissa Mecija reports: New records reveal how widespread a data breach was at the Sweetwater Union High School District. Information given to ABC 10News through a request from the California Public Records Act shows more than 22,000 people were affected by the breach, and the district paid a ransom to the alleged hackers. It was…
Hackers Exploited ColdFusion Vulnerability to Breach Federal Agency Servers
The Hacker News reports: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of active exploitation of a high-severity Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability by unidentified threat actors to gain initial access to government servers. “The vulnerability in ColdFusion (CVE-2023-26360) presents as an improper access control issue and exploitation of this CVE can result in arbitrary code execution,” CISA said,…
CBIZ KA Notice of Data Privacy Incident (Prime Healthcare)
CBIZ KA, a third-party vendor for Prime Healthcare (Prime), discovered a security incident involving CBIZ’s use of MOVEit Transfer software, which has recently reported a security vulnerability. Prime takes the responsibility of safeguarding your information very seriously, and while Prime systems were not involved in the incident, CBIZ KA uses MOVEit Transfer to securely transfer…
East River Medical Imaging notifies 605,809 patients of breach
East River Medical Imaging recently sent out notices to 605,809 patients concerning a breach in September. According to a patient notice posted on its website, on September 20, 2023, the New York medical practice identified suspicious activity within its IT network. We immediately initiated our incident response process, began an investigation with the assistance of…
23andMe data breach: Hackers accessed data of 6.9 million users
Catherine Stoddard reports: 23andMe, a company that does genetic testing and traces ancestry through shared DNA, confirmed to FOX TV Stations on Monday that hackers accessed personal data of about 0.1% of customers, which amounts to roughly 14,000 people who have used 23andMe. Hackers were able to breach those accounts because the customers had used the same username…