Torrey Pines High School of California announced that its network was hacked.
o was hacked to alter student grades and transcripts
- United Healthcare notified unknown number of patients in South Carolina that their PHI may have been exposed in a data breach that happened last year
- Hackers are hijacking smart door/building access control systems, which they are using to launch DDoS attacks, according to firewall company SonicWall.
- Beaumont Health of Michigan notified 1,200 patients that their PHI was exposed after an employee illegally accessed the info for potential monetary gain.
- Arizona Department of Education notified 7,000 parents that their info was inadvertently exposed after employee sent out the data in a MS Excel document.
- City of Belvidere in Michigan notified an unknown number of citizens that their info was exposed after a ransomware attack,.
- City of Racine, WI notified an unknown number of citizens that their info may have been exposed after a ransomware attack.
- Stacey Lavette Hendricks of Florida faces up to 20 years behind bars after she pleaded guilty to stealing PHI while working for Med Mar in Mount Dora and selling it for cash
- Shannon Lee Shander was arrested by West Hills Regional Police of Johnstown, PA, for allegedly stealing PHI while working for Cool Physique LLC and selling it to feed her drug habit
- DoppelPaymer, a dark web ransomware operator, announced it will now sell the confidential info on the Dark Web that it steals from companies and organizations that refuse to pay a ransom.
- East Virginia Medical School notified an unknown number of students and patients that their info may have been exposed after an email phishing attack.
- Fondren Orthopedic Group in Houston, Texas is notifying 30,049 patients that their PHI was exposed after a ransomware attack.
- Golden Entertainment of Enterprise, Nevada, notified an unknown number of employees and customers of its casinos that their info may have been exposed after an email phishing attack.
- The Department of Health & Human Services is warning healthcare providers in the U.S. that hackers are sending out email with subject lines about Coronavirus, hoping employees will open the email and click on attachment, which is malware.
- MHMR (mental health hospital) of Tarrant County in Fort Worth, TX is notifying 6,524 patients that their PHI may have been exposed in a phishing attack.
- Microsoft announced that it is detecting 77,000 active web shells per day
o Web shell is a malicious program or script that hacker inserts into customer’s server, and has been used in conjunction with printer and MFP hacks.
- Jefferson Center for Mental Health of Wheat Ridge, CO notified 1,319 patients that their PHI may have been exposed after the facility was burglarized.
- St. Louis Community College of Missouri notified an unknown number of students that their info may have been exposed after an email phishing attack.
- Raytheon Corp. of Tucson, Arizona announced that the FBI arrested employee Wei Sun for allegedly taking a work laptop with information about US missile defense technology to China
- Health Share of Oregon notified 654,362 patients that their PHI was exposed after a laptop computer was stolen.
- Pleasant Valley Hospital of West Virginia notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- Lafayette Regional Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana notified 1,360 patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
- Security Week magazine reported on new security vulnerability for devices using Android, where hackers can infiltrate the device via Bluetooth, and then launch a silent code execution.
- Check Point experts today revealed that hacker can enter a network using WiFi vulnerability found in Philips Hue Smart Light Bulbs
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