BlackCat has been busy and continues to attack the healthcare sector here and abroad. Visitors to their leak site this week saw listings for: Coachella Valley Collection Service, a service that provides debt collection services, including “medical, retail, commercial, judgment, and check debt collection.” BlackCat (aka AlphV) claims to have acquired 575 GB of data including…
Paying the ransom: Hospitals face hard choices in cyberattacks | Special Report
Ron Southwick has a thoughtful piece on the complexities of deciding whether or not to pay ransom if a healthcare entity is the victim of a cyberattack. As experts comment, while most experts and law enforcement prefer victims not pay ransom, sometimes entities decide they need to do it. But what are they paying it…
I had been chatting with a blackhat. They had been working with a whitehat. We were both dealing with the same person.
On April 18, DataBreaches reported that more details had emerged on the arrest of three men by Dutch police in January. The three were suspected of hacking and extorting victims in the Netherlands and elsewhere, obtaining and selling data online, and money laundering. A fourth person linked to the suspects known as “DataBox” had previously…
Wells Notice Against SolarWinds CISO Could Be First of Its Kind
Com Sivesind writes: SolarWinds Corporation, which suffered a major breach of its Orion software platform in December 2020, submitted a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on June 23rd, saying the enforcement staff of the SEC provided the company with a Wells Notice related to its investigation into the cyber incident. A Wells Notice is a…
Breach of the Protection Obligation by Fullerton Healthcare and Agape CP Holdings
From the Privacy and Data Protection Commission of Singapore, there’s an update to a breach that was previously disclosed in October 2021: A financial penalty of $58,000 and $10,000 was imposed on Fullerton Healthcare and Agape CP Holdings respectively for failing to put in place reasonable security arrangements to protect personal data belonging to Fullerton…
At least 100,000 could have had data exposed after US health department was hit by global MOVEit cyberattack
Sean Lyngaas reports: At least 100,000 people could have had their data compromised by a hack of contractors at the Department of Health and Human Services, a department official said Thursday, making it the latest US government agency to be caught up in a sweeping cyberattack connected to Russian cybercriminals. HHS notified Congress of the breach on…