Today’s reminder that law firms have a wealth of personal, sensitive, and medically related info that is often not covered by HIPAA. Coughlin & Cerhart (C&G) law firm in New York experienced a security breach in early April. It is not clear from their press release whether this was a ransomware attack or not, and…
Cyber attack paralyzes Eberspaecher
The following is a machine translation: Hackers paralyzed the international automotive supplier Eberspächer with a major cyber attack on Sunday morning. The website is also down. To protect customers and employees, the necessary steps to counteract the attack were taken immediately after the attack became known, the company said. Read more on SR.de.
Judge rules in favor of University of Mississippi Medical Center in trial against former employees who stole patient records
Will Stribling reports: A federal judge has ruled in favor of the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) over litigation against three former employees who stole patient medical records for their own use and then lied about possessing them for years. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves on Oct. 8 issued a default judgment in the…
Sg: Employment agency that suffered data breach says most stolen data is from fake profiles
David Sun reports: An employment agency that suffered a data breach earlier this month has issued a statement acknowledging the incident, but said it never received any ransom demand to recover the data. In its first comments on the attack, Protemps Employment Services said on Wednesday (Oct 27) that most of the stolen data was from…
Breach at Throckmorton County Memorial Hospital affects patients and employees’ personal and protected health information
Sara Tomarelli reports: Throckmorton County Memorial Hospital has notified patients and employees of a security breach that potentially affected their personal information. According to a press release from Throckmorton County Memorial Hospital the breach was discovered in their system on September 7, 2021, when the hospital experienced a security incident involving unauthorized access and malware….
WI: Janesville schools hit with ransomware attack locking digital systems
Jaymes Langrehr reports: The School District of Janesville says it was hit with a ransomware attack over the weekend, locking students, staff and parents out of several web-based systems and programs. In a Facebook post Monday, the district said their IT team noticed irregularities in the district’s network, and an investigation found code in the…