Building automation giant Johnson Controls hit by ransomware attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: Johnson Controls International has suffered what is described as a massive ransomware attack that encrypted many of the company devices, including VMware ESXi s […] Yesterday,...
View ArticleIRS consultant charged in leak of tax returns for Trump, wealthy Americans
Devlin Barrett and Spencer S. Hsu report: A Washington-based consultant for the Internal Revenue Service was charged Friday with stealing the tax returns of former president Donald Trump and thousands...
View ArticleHC3: Sector Alert Progress Software WS_FTP Critical Vulnerabilities
Progress Software WS_FTP Critical Vulnerabilities Executive Summary Progress Software, the maker of the MOVEit file transfer software which was widely exploited by the CL0P ransomware-as-a-service...
View ArticleAretis Health LLC notifies patients of 50 entities about MOVEit breach
Add Aretis Health LLC to the list of entities affected by the MOVEit breach. Aretis performs billing functions for NorthStar Anesthesia, and made notification to patients and HHS on behalf of the...
View ArticleMOVEit Data Breach Lawsuits Sent to Massachusetts Federal Court
Christopher Brown reports: More than 100 lawsuits arising from a cyberattack on Progress Software Corp.‘s MOVEit file transfer application will be consolidated in federal court in Massachusetts, the...
View ArticleBlackbaud settles breach probe by states for nearly $50M
Steven Ardary reports: A South Carolina software company has agreed to a multi-million dollar settlement for a 2020 ransomware event that exposed the personal information of millions of consumers in...
View ArticleCook County Health and Hospitals System terminates relationship with medical...
On September 24, Cook County Health and Hospitals System (CCH) in Illinois notified HHS of a breach. At the time, CCH reported that 500 patients were affected. The “500” entry is usually just a marker...
View ArticleCyber Attack Causing Service Interruptions At Ontario Hospitals
Meagan DeLaurier reports: An update on service interruptions at local hospitals. On Monday, it was reported that Windsor Regional Hospital, Hotel Dieu Grace, Erie Shores Healthcare, Hospice of...
View ArticleSouth Australian health patients caught up in data breach of third-party...
ABC reports: Thousands of South Australian public health patients are being contacted over a data breach of a third-party run portal. The state government said “unintentional human error” by patient...
View ArticleHackers Accessed 632,000 Email Addresses at US Justice, Defense Departments
Ari Natter reports: A Russian-speaking hacking group obtained access to the email addresses of about 632,000 US federal employees at the departments of Defense and Justice as part of the sprawling...
View ArticleExclusive: Advarra hacked, threat actors threatening to leak data
Advarra describes itself as providing integrated solutions to safeguard trial participants, empowering clinical sites, ensuring compliance, and optimizing research performance for thousands of...
View ArticleSG: Healthcare institutions website outage did not disrupt critical service...
Carmen Sin reports from Singapore: The websites of major public hospitals, polyclinics and healthcare clusters in Singapore could not be accessed for more than seven hours on Wednesday after they...
View ArticleOkta hit by third-party data breach exposing employee information
Bill Toulas reports: Okta is warning nearly 5,000 current and former employees that their personal information was exposed after a third-party vendor was breached. Okta is a San Fransisco-based cloud...
View ArticleUpdate: Daixin leaks more data from Bluewater Health and other hospitals;...
As some will likely have already noticed, Daixin Team released the second part of the data leak from five hospitals in Ontario that have IT services provided by TransForm SSO. The first leak,...
View ArticleUpdate: Sensitive patient data leaked from TransForm ransomware incident;...
As predicted, Daixin has leaked the third part of the data they exfiltrated from TransForm and Canadian healthcare entities. DataBreaches reported the first leak when Daixin publicly claimed...
View ArticleInfo from 5.6 million patient visits among data stolen in ransomware attack...
Kathleen Saylors and Jennifer La Grassa report: A database containing information on 5.6 million patient visits to Bluewater Health and the social insurance numbers of as many as 1,446 Chatham-Kent...
View ArticleSouthwestern Ontario hospitals will rebuild network from scratch amid fallout...
CBC reports: All five southwestern Ontario hospitals impacted by a cyberattack just over two weeks ago will rebuild their networks from scratch, the hospitals say in an update Wednesday. But the...
View ArticlePJ&A data breach also affected millions of Northwell Health patients
News12 on Long Island reports that the Perry Johnson & Associates (PJ&A) breach reported previously on this site has also affected Northwell Health, a major health system on Long Island....
View ArticleWas a recent OCR settlement fair? Maybe, but maybe not.
Sometimes you think you did a good job — and sometimes you actually did do a good job compared to everyone else — but someone comes along and says what you did wasn’t satisfactory at all. And when...
View ArticleCMS Notifies Additional Individuals Potentially Impacted by MOVEit Data Breach
As part of an ongoing investigation into the May 2023 data breach of Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer software on the corporate network of Maximus Federal Services, Inc. (Maximus Federal Services),...
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