Shaun Nichols and Gareth Corfield report: Internal confidential documents belonging to some of the largest aerospace companies in the world have been stolen from an industrial contractor and leaked online. The data was pilfered and dumped on the internet by the criminals behind the DoppelPaymer Windows ransomware, in retaliation for an unpaid extortion demand. Read…
London firm on standby to test therapeutics for COVID19 notifies volunteers about March attack by Maze Team
Hammersmith Medicines Research (HMR) in London takes pride in their record as specialists in pharmacology phase 1 and early phase 2 clinical trials — the kinds of trials that are needed before new medications can be approved for use by the public — and the kinds of trials that will be needed if new therapeutics…
Delaware urology practice hit with ransomware in January
On March 27, Brandywine Urology Consultants in Delaware began notifying the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and their patients about a ransomware attack. The attack occurred on January 25, and the practice became aware of it on January 27. Importantly, they state that the electronic medical records system (“EMR”) was not attacked…
ReportaClaim may need to report a leak
Pennsylvania-headquartered ReportaClaim.net describes itself as gateway for stand alone companies, professional employer organizations (PEOs), staffing companies, and their clients to submit worker injury reports. In order to do that, they necessarily collect a lot of personal and medically-related information such as the employee’s full name, the employer, the employee’s job position, the date of injury,…
Stockdale Radiology’s notification may confuse readers
On January 18, the ransomware group known as Maze Team, notified me via email that one of their “partners” (victims) was Stockdale Radiology. They provided me with sample data to prove it. I reported on it without naming the medical center on January 21. On January 28, I named Stockdale Radiology in a post after…
Another COVID-19 Research Firm Targeted by Ransomware Attack
The Hammersmith Medicines Research (HMR) facility in London is not the only firm working on research to understand or treat COVID-19 that has been recently attacked with ransomware. While Maze Team attacked HMR in March, another team using Sodinokibi ransomware (the REvil team) was attacking 10x Genomics in California. The attack was disclosed on April…