Note: coverage of the breaches referenced below can be found on this stie by searching it for “Jackson Health System.” The following is a press release from the U.S. Department of Health Office for Civil RIghts: The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has imposed a civil…
Ransomware Hits B2B Payments Firm Billtrust
Brian Krebs reports: Business-to-business payments provider Billtrust is still recovering from a ransomware attack that began last week. The company said it is in the final stages of bringing all of its systems back online from backups. With more than 550 employees, Lawrence Township, N.J.-based Billtrust is a cloud-based service that lets customers view invoices, pay, or…
AU: Tech start-up apologizes to students after potential data breach
Bianka Farmakis reports: Online events promotions company Get has apologised for potentially exposing the names, phone numbers and email addresses of up to 50,000 Australian university students in a data breach. Read more on 9News.
Phishing Incident at Kalispell Regional Healthcare May Have Affected 129,000 Patients
Myers Reece reports: Beginning today, Kalispell Regional Healthcare is mailing out letters to nearly 130,000 patients whose personal information may have been involved in a data breach over the summer. Patients’ personal information may have included their name, address, medical record number, date of birth, telephone number, email address, medical history and treatment information, date…
NordVPN, TorGuard and VikingVPN disclose security breaches
João Silva writes: NordVPN, one of the most well-known VPN provider, had confirmed a security breach in early 2018. At fault, there’s the data centre provider from Finland, where the server was hosted. The data centre provider used an insecure remote management system that NordVPN was “unaware” of. Although NordVPN seems to be playing down the occurrence,…
Ransomware attack cripples San Bernardino City Unified School District’s computer system
KABC reports that as of yesterday, the San Bernardino City Unified School District was still having issues gaining access to its computer network after it was hit in a ransomware attack. A pop-up message was displaying on the district’s website, which stated that student and parent data was secure, school phone lines are working, but…