CBS DFW reports: More than a million Texans may have been impacted by a massive data breach involving a large dental care provider. Jefferson Dental and Orthodontics, which has 72 offices across Texas, reported to the Texas Attorney General’s Office a data breach affecting up to 1,026,820 Texans. The breach was posted on the state’s…
Russian pipeline company Transneft hit by data leak dedicated to Hillary Clinton
Corin Faife reports: As the Russian invasion of Ukraine moves into its third week, unconventional actors continue to target Russian state-backed businesses with a string of hacks and data leaks — the latest apparently referencing pro-hacktivism comments made by Hillary Clinton. The targeted organization is Transneft, the Russian state-controlled oil pipeline giant. On Thursday, leak hosting website…
Hackers hit Hood. Dairy shut down milk production this week after ‘cyber security event’
Anissa Gardizy reports: It’s not just passwords, credit card data, or personal records. Now, it appears the hackers have come for our milk and Hoodsies. H.P. Hood Dairy said Friday that it was the target of a “cyber security event,” that forced it to temporarily shut its 13 dairy plants around the country this week….
Shooting the Whistleblower? Defamation Suit Claims Nuance Communications Gave False Info to FBI, SEC, Retaliated Against Whistleblower
There is an interesting lawsuit stemming from an incident that had previously been claimed to be a rogue insider’s doing. Now Marc Stolowitz, the former employee, is suing the firm, Nuance Communications, claiming that the firm falsely accused him of hacking them to cover up the fact that he was in the process of blowing…
And as the work week draws to a close… (updated)
And as this work week drew to a close, we also learned about these breaches involving patient data that were reported to HHS earlier this month: Dialyze Direct, LLC in New Jersey notified HHS that 14,203 patients were impacted by an incident they coded as a hacking/IT incident involving email. There is no statement on…
WVa: Wheeling Health Right victim of ransomware attack
From the notice on their website: Notice Regarding Recent Data Breach What Happened? On January 18, 2022, Wheeling Health Right discovered that our organization was victimized by a ransomware attack that encrypted our systems. Upon discovery of the security incident, we engaged legal counsel and a data breach remediation firm to conduct an investigation into…