A cyber-attack on the servers of the city of Bourg-Saint-Maurice took place this past weekend. Servers currently affected are those of tourism, Haute Tarentaise, and Séez. Le Dauphiné reports that the cybersecurity firm assisting with the investigation and recovery has found no theft of personal data (at least so far), but everything is encrypted. Although…
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Cancer patients in the State of Washington had their sensitive records hacked and dumped. Have they been notified?
On February 15, yours truly created an entry in the worksheet I maintain for tabulating U.S. incidents involving health data or protected health information. The entry listed “Capital Medical Center” in Washington as the breached entity, the date of disclosure as February 15, 2021, and the type of incident as a claimed ransomware attack by Avaddon…
OR: Centennial schools to close for 2 days after hackers breach school technology systems
Update of May 6: the district confirmed this as a ransomware attack. Their computers are still offline. Original post: Jayati Ramakrishnan reports: A Portland-area school district has canceled Tuesday and Wednesday classes as staffers work to fix a ransomware attack that may have affected the district’s technology systems. Centennial School District staff discovered Monday that certain…
Jp: Notice about the occurrence of an online trading system failure due to unauthorized access
Nissan Securities has issued a statement disclosing that it experienced unauthorized access on April 25, 2021. The statement reads as follows (translation); Since April 25, 2021, the online trading system (trading options / futures on stock indexes, click 365, click shares 365) has been damaged due to unauthorized access by a third party. Due to…
Au: Queensland hospitals and aged care facilities crippled by cyber attack
Nathan Edwards reports: Multiple Queensland hospitals and aged care centres have been crippled by a cyber-attack, resulting in several disruptions to internal systems. 9News understands the entire UnitingCare Queensland internal IT system was attacked by ransomware software, with all UCQ hospitals and aged care homes working without IT systems until further notice. Among a number of aged care centres…
It: Union of Comuni Colli del Monferrato, cyber attack: hackers publish data
Marco A. De Felice reports: The Avaddon ransomware group publishes screenshots of some data stolen during the cyber attack on the Unione di Comuni Colli del Monferrato, but by mistake it puts the wrong Unione (Unione dei Colli DiVini in the heart of Monferrato) under DDoS attack. Oops? But as Marco notes, that wasn’t the…