Well, this is not exactly what I suggested yesterday on Twitter as a strategy (I suggested that every ransomware group that hits the medical sector should be declared a terrorist organization and put on the Treasury’s sanctioned list), but it could help. Ian Talley and Dustin Volz report: The Biden administration is preparing an array…
Simon Eye notifies more than 144,000 patients after hacker accessed employee email accounts
Simon Eye Management (“Simon Eye”) recently became aware of suspicious activity related to certain employee email accounts. With the assistance of third-party computer forensic specialists, we took immediate steps to contain the incident and to investigate the nature and scope of the incident. Simon Eye is issuing this notice to provide additional details regarding what…
Cyberattack on Alaska DHSS website includes HIPAA and APIPA breach
Update of October 5, 2021: On September 22, Alaska DHSS reported this incident to HHS as a health plan, and indicated that they were notifying 500,000 individuals (even though there was no evidence of data exfiltration). As of today, some of the state’s divisions are still not fully restored on the web. The Alaska Department…
Illinois Man Convicted of Federal Criminal Charges for Operating Subscription-Based Computer Attack Platforms
LOS ANGELES – An Illinois man was found guilty today by a federal jury for running websites that allowed paying users to launch powerful distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks that flood targeted computers with information and prevent them from being able to access the internet. Matthew Gatrel, 32, of St. Charles, Illinois, was found…
Hackers stole Covid test data of 1.4 million people from Paris hospital system
Sarah Elzas reports: Hackers stole the personal data of around 1.4 million people who took Covid-19 tests in the Paris region in the middle of 2020. The hack of a service of the Paris public hospital system, AP-HP, is the latest in a growing number of cyberattacks on French health institutions and Covid data breaches….
Texoma Community Center notifies 24,030 patients of email hack in September, 2020
In August, Texoma Community Center in Texas (TCC) notified HHS that 24,030 patients had been impacted by breach involving a hack of email. TCC provides mental health, behavioral health, and intellectual and developmental disability services to adults and minors in the Sherman, Texas area. Today, they issued a press release concerning what they describe as…