Protenus, Inc. has released its Breach Barometer for January. As they report, 2017 is starting out where 2016 left off: we are seeing an average of one breach per day involving health data. Protenus’s report, based on 31 incidents, reported that there were 388,307 breached records for the 26 incidents for which they had numbers. The single largest…
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Hackers hit D.C. police closed-circuit camera network, city officials disclose
Clarence Williams reports: Hackers infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump’s inauguration, forcing major citywide reinstallation efforts, according to the police and the city’s technology office. City officials said ransomware left police cameras unable to record between Jan. 12 and Jan. 15. The…
MN: PrimeWest Health notifies members of Summit Reinsurance incident
Another entity affected by the Summit Reinsurance ransomware attack in March, 2016 is first notifying individuals of the incident. See this report about PrimeWest Health. The insurer notified HHS of the incident on December 29, reporting that 2,441 members were affected. The reinsurer’s breach was discovered on August 8, 2016, and yet affected entities are…
Cyber extortion – legality of ransom payments and the approach of businesses and insurers
Sami Paracha of Taylor Wessing has an article on cyber-extortion and ransom demands from a UK perspective. It makes for interesting reading. The article begins: Cyber Security is an omnipresent risk for most businesses. And it is a growing risk given the more frequent and serious cyber attacks, higher costs for proactively managing these risks…
No payoff for hackers, Arkansas school district says
Jack Sandlin reports: Computer hackers infected the Valley Springs School District‘s computer system with malicious software Thursday, locking access and demanding a ransom to restore its files and programs. The hackers demanded a payment of 7,000 British pounds — about $8,500 U.S. dollars — from the school district, Superintendent Judy Green said Friday. The hackers…
UK: Trojan malware blamed for cyberattack at Barts Health NHS hospitals
Danny Palmer reports that trojan malware has been blamed for the cyberattack against Barts Health NHS Trust, which had been noted previously on this site. The Trust had disclosed that they originally suspected ransomware had infected its system, but had ruled that out. The method of infection is either still not known or they’re not…