Jonathan Greig reports: A cyberattack in May gave hackers access to the personal, financial and medical information of more than 47,000 residents living in Wichita County, Texas. County officials filed breach notification documents with regulators in Texas as well as Maine and posted a notice on their website warning residents that the incident involved everything from names, Social Security…
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Since June, two groups claim to have attacked The Eye Clinic Surgicenter. What do we know?
One cyberattack is distressing enough. But has The Eye Clinic Surgicenter been attacked by two different groups this year? Silence is not golden if patient data has already been leaked. Last week, Meow Leaks added The Eye Clinic Surgicenter in Montana to their leak site. Meow’s site indicates that is offering 59 GB of files…
Carolina Arthritis hit by ThreeAm ransomware attack
On Thursday morning, ThreeAM added Carolina Arthritis to its leak site. Some ransomware groups add a listing, post some claims and a few screencaps, and then give the entity a deadline to pay up, or they leak a bit of data and then give the entity a final deadline. ThreeAM doesn’t seem to work that…
OnePoint Patient Care notifies almost 800,000 patients of August ransomware attack
On September 15, INC Ransom added OnePoint Patient Care to its leak site. The threat actors claimed to have encrypted the hospice dispensing pharmacy and pharmacy benefits management service’s files. It wasn’t long after that INC leaked all of the data. The Arizona-based provider notified HHS of the incident on October 14, reporting that 795,916…
Cardiology of Virginia patient data appears to be up for sale. Has the entity issued any statement at all?
On September 7, RansomHub added Cardiology of Virginia to its dark web leak site, claiming that about 1 TB of files had been acquired. DataBreaches assumes no payment agreement was struck as RansomHub subsequently leaked data, complete with a filelisting, youtube video, and other files. “For bulk archive and confidential data analyzes trough our own…
CISA: Proposed Security Requirements for Restricted Transactions Pursuant to Exec. Order 14117
Following up on President Biden’s recent executive order and the Justice Department’s notice of proposed rulemaking, CISA has issued the following: PROPOSED SECURITY REQUIREMENTS FOR RESTRICTED TRANSACTIONS Pursuant to Exec. Order 14117, Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern On February 28, 2024, President Biden signed…