Marco De Felice reports: In these hours, the ransomware group Nefilim has published on the dark web a first part of data stolen from the American “ultra low cost” company Spirit Airlines. The first block contains over 40GB of data with over 33,000 files. Financial data, personal information of customers who purchased tickets to fly with…
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Woodcreek Provider Services notifies more than 210,000 patients of Netgain Technology ransomware incident
Back in January, this site noted that a ransomware attack on Netgain Technology LLC had impacted Ramsey County. Previous coverage of the Netgain Technology attack had reported that Netgain had stated that they were victims of a ransomware attack on November 24th, 2020 and On December 4th, customers began receiving emails from Netgain stating that…
NC: FBI investigating 8-day cyber attack after ransomware attack on Allergy Partners
John Le reports: Federal authorities are investigating the ransomware attack that caused a network outage at Allergy Partners locations in the mountains. The attack happened on Feb. 23 and continued for eight days as hackers wanted a king’s ransom of $1.75 million, according to a report filed with Asheville Police Department. Meanwhile, the staff was…
Ransomware attacks of two more medical entities disclosed: one in U.S., one in Canada
It seems that every day, we learn of more ransomware attacks on healthcare entities. Here are two more. Arizona: Cochise Eye and Laser The most recent update to HHS’s public breach tool included an incident reported by RF Eye, P.C., dba Cochise Eye and Laser. On February 17, the Arizona entity posted a notice on…
AllyAlign notifies 76,348 members and providers of ransomware attack
AllyAlign Health (AAH), a Medicare Advantage special needs plan administrator, recently notified 76,348 members and providers of an attempted ransomware attack. But how successful were the threat actors? And what could the Virginia firm figure out and what couldn’t they figure out based on their investigation? According to AAH’s notification letter, the attack occurred on…
Ripe for extortion? Navajo Nation hospital targeted by large-scale ransomware hack
Kevin Collier has a follow-up on the Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care cyberattack first reported by DataBreaches.net on February 16. From Collier’s reporting, it seems that those impacted by the breach have yet to be notified. As I’ve advocated many, many times: when PII or PHI are publicly dumped by criminals, taking 60 days to…