Top Class Actions reports that Florida Orthopaedic Institute, ooerated by the Musculoskeletal Institute, has agreed to pay $4 million to settle claims stemming from a 2020 ransomware attack. The incident was first disclosed in June 2020, and then reported to HHS on July 1 as affecting 640,000 patients. There is no notation in HHS’s public…
Digital Ocean dumps Mailchimp after attack leaked customer email addresses
Simon Sharwood reports: Junior cloud Digital Ocean has revealed that some of its clients’ email addresses were exposed to attackers, thanks to an attack on email marketing service Mailchimp. This story starts last week when some of the blockheads in crypto-land noticed that email marketing service Mailchimp had suspended service for some of their fellow…
U.K.: South Staffordshire Water says it was target of cyber attack as criminals bungle extortion attempt
It is not unheard of for ransomware groups to publicly misidentify their victims. We saw such errors from the outset of groups publicly naming and shaming victims and leaking data. DataBreaches reported on a few such cases involving Maze and has reported on other misidentifications in other groups since then. DataBreaches has occasionally contacted threat…
Signal says third-party data breach exposed 1,900 phone numbers
J. Fingas reports: Signal’s reputation for secure messaging doesn’t make it completely invulnerable to hacking incidents. The company has confirmed that a data breach at verification partner Twillio exposed the phone numbers and SMS codes of roughly 1,900 users. As TechCrunch observed, the intruder could have either used the information to either identify Signal users or re-register their numbers to other…
Pl: Hackers have attacked a company that provides remote reading of water meters
Wojciech Karpieszuk reports that the Marymont Potok cooperative announced the attack on Thursday. Machine translation: We don’t know what this entails, whether the data is safe, or whether the readings will be falsified,” says Mr. Janusz from Marymont. A customer notes that the switch to remote reading was supposed to prevent fraud, but if hackers…
Foreign National Faces Federal Charges for Wire Fraud, Money Laundering and Aggravated Identity Theft Related to a Business Email Compromise Scheme
Victims of the Scheme were in at least Five States including California, Tennessee, Michigan, Hawaii, and Illinois Greenbelt, Maryland – Njuh Valentine Fombe, a/k/a “Valentine”, age 36, formerly of Beltsville, Maryland, had an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt on August 8, 2022, after being a fugitive for almost three years until his…