This is the time of year when many sites compile their lists of worst breaches of the year. Some consider all sectors, some confine themselves to one sector. Many base their lists on number reported to some regulator. Over the years, I have compiled my own annual lists where the “worst breaches” were not always…
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NC: Monarch notifies HHS of breach, but where are the details and notice?
On September 1, a listing on a dark web site by a group calling themselves Don#t_Leaks named MonarchNC as a victim. The listing did not appear for long. The only “proof” offered at the time was a filetree and a screencap of what might be an index of an inbox showing monarchnc.org domain in email…
OH: Security breach at software provider affects software in registrar’s office and other vendor clients (UPDATED)
UPJobNews reports: Lawyers, title company workers and citizens trying to register documents before the end of 2022 found they can’t for now thanks to a security breach affecting the Columbiana County Recorder’s office. No other Columbiana County offices or servers are affected. County Recorder Jim Armeni Sr. announced the issue Thursday, posted a note on…
Attack on the Azienda Ospedaliera di Alessandria hospital: additional details on the case
Marco A. De Felice prefaces his reporting on a Ragnar_Locker attack with this message: For ethical reasons we did not want to spread the news of the attack on the hospital’s IT infrastructure before the news became public knowledge. Indeed, on December 20, SuspectFile had already become aware of the ransom note written by the…
Cyberattacks: higher education on high alert despite the holidays
The following is a machine translation of a report by Valéry Rieß-Marchive: cIn mid-September, Toulouse INP started the school year on a cyberattack with ransomware . At the beginning of December, Grenoble INP informed of an “intrusion” on its computer servers, but not to mention a cyberattack . At the same time, our colleagues from Parisian revealed that the IUT Paris – Rives de Seine was openly…
CommonSpirit Gets Restraining Order in Missing Patient Info Suit (UPDATED)
Holly Barker reports: CommonSpirit Health, one of the country’s largest nonprofit health systems, convinced a federal judge in Texas to order a medical technology vendor to return hundreds of thousands of medical records it was sent to archive. The US District Court for the Northern District of Texas’s order directs Emerge Clinical Solutions LLC to…