Marco A. De Felice reports: The ransomware group ALPHV (BlackCat) has published a first part of exfiltrated data from the Town of Iowa in the state of Louisiana. Approximately 250 scanned documents in PDF format have been released, some of which contain visible Social Security numbers (SSNs) of employees, employee salaries, balance sheets, birthdates, addresses,…
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Toronto Public Library outages caused by Black Basta ransomware attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: The Toronto Public Library is experiencing ongoing technical outages due to a Black Basta ransomware attack. The Toronto Public Library (TPL) is Canada’s largest public library system, giving access to 12 million books through 100 branch libraries across the city. The library system has 1,200,000 registered members and operates on a budget…
HHS announces its first settlement in a ransomware case: Doctors’ Management Services
From HHS, this interesting press announcement: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) with Doctors’ Management Services, a Massachusetts medical management company that provides a variety of services, including medical billing and payor credentialing. The…
Inadequate security measures: the Guarantor sanctions an ASL. The healthcare facility had suffered a ransomware attack
The following is a Google machine translation of a post by Italy’s data protection regulator. It strikes me yet again how entities covered by the GDPR get fined for poor or inadequate security practices that should — but generally do not — incur monetary penalties here: Sanction by the Privacy Guarantor of 30,000 euros to a…
In the throes of bankruptcy and hit by a ransomware attack, Akumin still unable to provide many diagnostic services to patients
On October 18, WFLX reported that Akumin was turning away patients after an apparent ransomware attack. The attack was potentially very concerning because Akumin provides medical scans and radiology services for about 1,000 hospitals and health systems in 48 states, although it is headquartered in Florida. Akumin first noticed suspicious activity on Oct. 11 and…
PA: Hopewell Area School District says network disruption was caused by ransomware attack
Kalea Gunderson reports: The Hopewell Area School District was the target of a “sophisticated ransomware attack.” How it happened remains under investigation, but the key concern in any cyberattack is data In a statement, Superintendent Dr. Jeff Beltz said the district has been working with outside specialists to investigate the cause of the attack and…