The Canadian Press reports: The union representing public high school teachers in Ontario says it was the victim of a ransomware attack earlier this year that compromised members’ personal information. The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation says it discovered in late May that an “unauthorized third party” accessed and encrypted its systems between May 25…
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In: Ransomware suspected as AIIMS servers go down, trigger long waits
Soumya Pillai reports: A suspected ransomware attack hit servers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday, leading to long waits for patients as registrations, sample processing and billing as computers went down. According to doctors, services for out-patient (OPD) and in-patient (IPD) departments were affected since 7am on Wednesday, halting all…
HC3 Alert on Lorenz Ransomware
HC3 has issued an alert about Lorenz ransomware. Lorenz threat actors have been mentioned on DataBreaches’ site several times since 2021. In one case they attacked and exfiltrated data of 500,000 patients of Wolfe Clinic in Iowa, and they recently posted data from Salud Family Health in Colorado. Salud has not yet reported a number…
Doctors Center Hospital reports 1.2 million patients affected by ransomware attack
On some as yet undisclosed date, Doctors Center Hospital in Puerto Rico became the victim of a relatively new ransomware group calling themselves Project Relic. To date, Doctors Center Hospital (DCH) has not responded to inquiries sent to it by DataBreaches on November 11 and November 12, and their email appeared to be out of…
DOCS Medical Group discloses September ransomware incident
DOCS Medical Group is an urgent care and primary care provider in Connecticut with multiple locations. They also provide telemedicine services. On September 7, DOCS detected abnormal activity that was quickly identified as a ransomware attack. According to their notification letter to patients dated November 7, an unspecified number of patients had their information on…
Michigan prosthetics and orthotics provider discloses ransomware attack back in January (Updated)
Wright & Filippis, a well-known orthotics and prosthetics provider in Michigan, issued a press release yesterday about a cyberattack between January 26 and January 28, 2022. While the press release is not specific about the nature of the attack, a companion FAQ indicates that the attack resulted in the deployment of ransomware. Wright & Filippis…