Felipe Erazo: The FDA-approved Coronavirus ventilator manufacturer Boyce Technologies has been targeted by ransomware launched by the DoppelPaymer gang, who are threatening to leak data from the company. Cointelegraph has viewed the DoppelPaymer blog, where the gang lists example files of the data stolen during the attack, including sales and purchase orders, assignment forms, among…
Hacking medical devices to hijack secure facilities
Fahmida Y. Rashid reports: People entering secure facilities—such as those found in military, security, and government agencies—are often asked to hand over their connected devices such as fitness trackers and smartphones. Those devices are stored in secure lockers and then returned when their owners leave the facility. All this is done in the name of…
Due to HHS intervention, an FTP leak in 2018 is finally reported to patients
It looks like HHS followed up on a leak first reported by DataBreaches.net in May, 2018. At the time, this site noted that two MedEvolve clients had exposed data. One of them was Beverly Held, M.D. A researcher had found .dat files exposed without any login required and estimated that there were approximately 12,000 SSNs…
Hancock County school district hit by cyber attack, internet connectivity affected
Matt McKinney reports: Schools in the Community School Corporation of Southern Hancock County district were subject to a cyber attack over the last two days, primarily affecting internet connectivity for teachers and students. No personal information for students, families or staff was compromised, as officials believe it was a targeted attack focused on taking down…
Scholarship America notifies individuals of breach
There have been so many Blackbaud-related security notifications that my first thought was that one by Scholarship America would be more of the same. But it’s not. It’s another hack involving Microsoft Office 365 accounts, which has been a growing problem this year. From their press release yesterday: – Scholarship America, a nonprofit organization that manages…
UK Dentists May Have Had Bank Details Stolen Following Data Breach
When I saw the ransomware attack on the British Dental Association noted on a Russian-language forum, I didn’t think too much about it. After all, it was just another professional organization or guild organization, right? Maybe I should have paid more attention because the organization may have stored more personal and sensitive information that I…