Kris B. Mamula reports: Some 25,000 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) patients are being contacted by a Tennessee billing contractor following a data breach caused by a software bug that may have exposed names, addresses, social security numbers and other personal information. Kingsport-based Intellihartx LLC, which provides UPMC with billing and collection services, is…
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Hackers Using MOVEit Flaw to Deploy Web Shells, Steal Data
Exploiting vulnerabilities in file transfer software for businesses and medical practices can result in a treasure trove of valuable data and the opportunity to try to extort oh, so many victims. First it was an Accellion vulnerability, exploited by Cl0p (past coverage). Then it was a Fortra GoAnywhere vulnerability, exploited by Cl0p (past coverage). Now…
Ransomware attack on PharMerica affected 5.8 million patients
While the Fortra/GoAnywhere data breach by Clop is shaping up to be the biggest, or one of the biggest, breaches affecting HIPAA-covered entities and business associates in 2023, an attack by Money Message on PharMerica is currently the largest single breach reported so far this year, with almost 6 million affected. On April 8, DataBreaches…
Brightline continues notifying clients of GoAnywhere incident; count continues to rise (more than 1 million)
Updated May 3: When DataBreaches checked Clop’s leak site today, the listing for Brightline was gone. Whether this means that they paid Clop to get it removed, or if its removal is just temporary remains to be seen. But out of all the health-related Fortra clients this site reported on in April, the Brightline listing…
Microsoft leads effort to disrupt illicit use of Cobalt Strike, a dangerous hacking tool in the wrong hands
Elias Groll and AJ Vicens report: Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, cybersecurity firm Fortra and the Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center announced legal action Thursday to seize domains related to criminal activity involving cracked copies of the security testing application Cobalt Strike, which has become a favorite tool for cybercriminals to carry out attacks around…
Hackers leak 16,000 Tas documents on dark web
The Fortra/GoAnywhere incident also affected Tasmanian school children. Emily Woods reports: Hackers have released 16,000 Tasmanian education department documents on the dark web including school children’s personal information, the state government has confirmed. Science and Technology Minister Madeleine Ogilvie said thousands of financial statements and invoices containing names and addresses of school students and their…