Yaron Doron reports: The computer systems of Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera were targeted Wednesday morning by a ransomware cyberattack. Hillel Yaffe asked that Magen David Adom and the Health Ministry send them only patients requiring urgent care. Ongoing medical care was uninterrupted, although elective procedures were put on hold. Read more on Israel…
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San Juan Regional Medical Center updates its breach disclosure
On June 17, 2021, this site noted a breach involving San Juan Regional Medical Center that had been reported to HHS and posted on the entity’s web site. According to their notification on June 4, the breach occurred September 7-8, 2020, and the threat actor exfiltrated data at that time. In April, 2021, they allegedly…
K–12 Cybersecurity Act Signed into Law
David Nagel reports: On Friday, Oct. 8, President Biden signed the K–12 Cybersecurity Act of 2021 into law. The act comes in response to growing data security incidents impacting K–12 schools in recent years, including a dramatic rise in ransomware and other forms of malware. On its own, the legislation is fairly simple: It authorizes the director of…
The Dallas Independent School District breach impacted almost 800,000, but details are still lacking
On September 3, this site reported on a breach involving Dallas ISD in Texas. As noted at the time, details were lacking. But now their external counsel has provided notification to the Maine Attorney General’s Office and so we now know more: The breach, which reportedly occurred on June 8, impacted 795,497 individuals. [Note that…
Federal government announces two initiatives of note
In the news yesterday: Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco Announces National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced today the creation of a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET), to tackle complex investigations and prosecutions of criminal misuses of cryptocurrency, particularly crimes committed by virtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, and…
Identity Theft Resource Center to Share Latest Data Breach Analysis With U.S. Senate Commerce Committee; Number of Data Breaches in 2021 Surpasses all of 2020
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Today, the Identity Theft Resource Center® (ITRC), a nationally recognized nonprofit organization established to support victims of identity crime, released its U.S. data breach findings for the third quarter (Q3) of 2021. According to the data breach analysis, the number of data breaches publicly-reported in the U.S. decreased…