Rory MacLean reports: A ransomware attack on a Saskatoon obstetrics and gynecology clinic left the personal health information of up to 20,000 patients in the hands of malicious hackers, according to the province’s privacy watchdog. In a report issued in September, Privacy Commissioner Ronald Kruzeniski said the attack targeting Saskatoon Obstetric and Gynecologic Consultants resulted…
Bankrupt Crypto Lender Celsius Reveals Thousands of Users’ Transaction Histories in Court Filing
Will McCurdy reports: Troubled crypto lender Celsius has revealed the names and transaction history of hundreds of thousands of its customers in a court filing. The 14,500-page long document contained information such as customer names, crypto wallet IDs, transaction types and amounts, which services the customer had used, and the types and quantities of tokens held. Read…
Some Tufts community members’ health insurance information compromised in vaccine clinic data breach
Emily Thompson reports: Tufts announced in a Thursday evening email to the community that its vaccine clinic provider, Pelmeds, has experienced a data breach involving images of patients’ insurance cards. The number of Tufts community members affected by the breach is still unknown. Tufts has ended its contract with the company and postponed all previously…
Internap Loses Customer Data, Shrugs, Doesn’t Apologize
raindog308 writes: Internap was the victim of a ransomware attack and responded today by announcing they were simply quitting a variety of businesses. On Wednesday, September 28th, between the hours of 2:11 am CDT and 5:41 am CDT, INAP was the target of a ransomware attack that affected the services we provide to you. Unfortunately, your services are…
Revenge telecom hacking by DESORDEN Group; third attack threatened
DESORDEN Group has added a new transparency demand to their attacks against Malaysian entities: victims must disclose the breach publicly if they have not paid the attackers. If the victim doesn’t disclose and Malaysian media does not report the incident, Malaysia should expect more breaches. The added demands arose after DESORDEN claimed they spent hours…
Albania weighed invoking NATO’s Article 5 over Iranian cyberattack
Maggie Miller reports: Albania was hit by cyberattacks earlier this year so debilitating that the government considered invoking a NATO declaration that could have pulled all member states into confrontation with Iran, Prime Minister Edi Rama said. It would have been the first time a NATO member state used a cyberattack to invoke Article Five…