From translations of available sources, it appears that the municipality of was paralyzed by a cyber attack on April 7. The municipality estimated that it would take about 14 days to fully restore services. They do not indicate what kind of ransomware was involved or what demands were made. Read more on Olomouc.cz. Last April,…
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Another French hospital hit by cyberattack
Mathieu Ferri reports (translation): The phone no longer answers at the Saint-Gaudens hospital (Haute-Garonne). According to information from France Bleu Occitanie, the Comminges-Pyrénées hospital center has been the victim of a computer attack since around 4 a.m. , this Thursday, April 8, which greatly disrupts its operation. A ransom demand has been presented, explains the…
Axios Italia hit; thousands of schools potentially impacted
Andrea Grassi reports: One of the most used electronic register applications by Italian schools, Axios RE, is offline from the night of Friday 2 to Saturday 3 April due to a ransomware attack. Many of the ransomware attacks strike right on weekends or at the beginning of bridges and holidays, so that the malware has…
Cyber Criminals Hone Attacks Against Schools
Kathleen E. Dion of Robinson & Cole writes: The FBI recently issued a Flash alert warning higher education institutions, k-12 schools, and seminaries about increasing numbers of ransomware attacks affecting the education industry. According to the warning, “[s]ince March 2020, the FBI has become aware of PYSA ransomware attacks against U.S. and foreign government entities,…
Class action lawsuit filed against Roper St. Francis Healthcare over multiple data breaches
Regular readers may recall that September, 2020 was not a good month for St. Roper Francis, and DataBreaches.net had to explain that the healthcare system was dealing with notifications from two unrelated breaches. One involved 6,000 patients impacted by a hack of an employee’s email account. The other involved more than 90,000 patients impacted by…
They, too, also issued breach notices…
Each week, I post some articles on this site about breaches involving protected health information or medical information, but there are usually other reports that just get entered on my worksheets for analysis for Protenus. To give you a taste of how many more incidents we record but not necessarily post in a week, I…