In March, Super Care, Inc. dba SuperCare Health, notified the California Attorney General’s Office of a breach. The home respiratory care provider’s notification explained that on July 27, 2021, they had discovered unauthorized activity in their system — activity that they subsequently learned began on July 23. In a notification to 318,379 patients sent on…
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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers
Brian Krebs reports: Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. But few organizations have a playbook for responding to the kinds of virtual “smash…
MO: Tague Family Practice patient records stolen and leaked
Tague Family Practice (TFP) in St. Louis, Missouri is a primary care practice that strives to maintain the traditional care model of a doctor who spends time getting to know you and providing preventative care as well as care for acute problems or chronic conditions. On some date unknown to DataBreaches.net, the practice fell victim…
55,000 there, 190,000 there, 1.8 million there, and the breaches roll on…
Taylor Regional Hospital in Kentucky recently notified 190,209 patients of breach that they identified in January. An investigation determined that an unauthorized person had gained access to their network between November 2, 2021 and January 19, 2022, and obtained certain files from their systems containing patients’ names, and one or more of the following: address,…
An Interview with AgainstTheWest
They are anonymous, but they are not Anonymous. Meet the individuals who are using their skills to take on the West’s enemies. Names can be misleading. When I first read about a group called “AgainstTheWest,” I assumed they were working against the west. But while threat actors from Russia, China, Belarus, and North Korea attack…
Vietnamese bank accounts targeted by hackers
An article in VietnamNet has some findings about cybercrime in Vietnam and how work-from-home and COVID-19 have contributed to the increase in certain kinds of crime. Some of the findings reported in the article include: In 2021, the number of phishing cases increased by three times compared with 2020. As many as 2,739 phishing websites…