Panorama Eyecare in Colorado is a physician-owned firm providing business associate services to vision care providers: Earlier today, the firm was added to LockBit’s leak site with a claim that 798 GB of data had been exfiltrated from four of the firm’s clients: Eye Center of Northern Colorado Denver Eye Surgeons Cheyenne Eye Clinic &…
Why gay furry hackers are leaking state government documents
Hacktivism is still a thing, of course, perhaps even more so these days with all the political conflicts in within and between countries and religions. If you’ve been wondering about a group describing themselves as “gay, furry hackers,” Sofia Mahirova has a write-up about them: Earlier this month, SiegedSec, the group of self-described “gay and…
Lawsuit against cardiology practice alleges fraudulent charges from data breach
In many potential class action lawsuits stemming from a data breach, none of the named plaintiffs may have experienced any concrete injury such as identity theft or fraud that could plausibly linked to the breach. Here’s a lawsuit where’s the plaintiffs report concrete injury. Whether they will be able to link it to the particular…
Social Security numbers, other data may have been stolen breaches at Lansing Community College and D’Youville University
Mike Ellis reports: More than three-quarters of a million people may have had their social security numbers stolen in a data breach at Lansing Community College in late 2022 and early 2023, according to a law firm that says it’s investigating the incident. The community college notified “757,832 employees, students and vendors that their personal…
Trinidad and Tobago facing outages after cyberattack
Jonathan Greig reports: Trinidad and Tobago’s justice department is dealing with a cyberattack that has impacted the ministry’s operations. The island nation of more than 1.4 million people announced on Friday that its Ministry of Digital Transformation discovered a cyberattack targeting the country’s Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs (AGLA) in…
HCA Healthcare releases statement while hacker puts data up for sale on deep web (update1)
On July 5, while some folks were cleaning up from fireworks and barbecues, DataBreaches broke the news that HCA Healthcare data was up for sale on a deep web forum if the company didn’t meet some unspecified demands. Since that time, DataBreaches has remained in some contact with the seller, who has occasionally provided additional…