Treasury Takes Robust Actions to Counter Ransomware WASHINGTON — As part of the whole-of-government effort to counter ransomware, the U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced a set of actions focused on disrupting criminal networks and virtual currency exchanges responsible for laundering ransoms, encouraging improved cyber security across the private sector, and increasing incident and…
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ALTDOS claims to have hacked one of Malaysia’s biggest conglomerates
Threat actors known as ALTDOS continue to romp their way through attacks on ASEAN entities, garnering very little media attention as they acquire and dump millions of consumer records and proprietary information on businesses. The majority of the victims whose data they have dumped appear to be from Singapore and Thailand, but they do have…
All of Desert Wells Family Medicine patients’ electronic health records were corrupted and unrecoverable from ransomware attack
On August 30, HHS added Queen Creek Medical Center d/b/a Desert Wells Family Medicine in Arizona to its public breach tool. The entity had reported that 35,000 patients were impacted by a breach involving a hack of the network. We now have more details on that incident available thanks to a public disclosure of their…
Town of Deerfield offering credit monitoring after data breach potentially exposed more than 8,100 residents’ info
Chris Larabee reports: An unauthorized third party viewed or acquired the personal information of several residents in a March 25 data breach. Springbrook Software, Deerfield’s data storage provider, notified the town of the incident after it completed an investigation May 6 and the town made a formal announcement Aug. 31 after residents received notification of the breach. Town…
California DOJ Must Be Notified About Breaches of the Health Data of 500 or More California Residents
HIPAA Journal reminds us all that states can require notification to the state of breaches that are also covered by HIPAA and can take enforcement action if they are not reported: Recently, there have been several instances where the California DOJ has not been notified about ransomware attacks on California healthcare facilities, even though the…
UT: Phishing attack exposes medical information for 12,000 patients at Revere Health
Sean Hemmersmeier reports: A healthcare employee was the subject of a phishing email attack that exposed some medical records for approximately 12,000 patients, including patients of cardiology practice in St. George, according to a press release sent out by healthcare company Revere Health on Friday. The employee’s email was breached for roughly 45 minutes on…