1st December 2020 | Target: AspenPointe| Reported Here
An American nonprofit psychological well being and behavioral wellbeing solutions supplier has been notifying patients of a modern cyber-attack that uncovered the shielded wellness facts (PHI) of extra than 295,000 patients.
AspenPointe, which is based mostly in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was successfully targeted by cyber-criminals in September 2020. The attack forced the health care provider to consider its programs offline, resulting in quite a few times of operational disruption.
28th November 2020 | Target: Advantech | Reported Here
The IoT giant Advantech has become the latest victim of a severe cyber attack. Reportedly, Advantech has fallen prey to the infamous Conti ransomware attack where the hackers have demanded a whopping 750 BTC as ransom.
23rd November 2020 | Target: Louisiana Hospitals | Reported Here
The data of thousands of patients has been exposed following a cyber-attack on Louisiana State University medical centers.
LSU Health New Orleans issued a HIPAA breach notification on November 20 after detecting a cyber-intrusion into an employee’s electronic mailbox.
“The intrusion appears to have occurred on September 15, 2020, and the mailbox access was discovered and disabled on September 18, 2020,” said LSU Health.
18th November 2020 | Target: US cold storage firm Americold| Reported Here
Americold, a company whose cold-storage capabilities are integral to the U.S. food-supply chain (and soon, COVID-19 vaccine distribution), has confirmed an operations-impacting cyberattack, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
16th November 2020 | Target: Capcom | Reported Here
Capcom, the Japanese game maker behind the “Resident Evil” and “Street Fighter” franchises, has confirmed that hackers stole customer data and files from its internal network following a ransomware attack earlier in the month.
That’s an about-turn from the days immediately following the cyberattack, in which Capcom said it had no evidence that customer data had been accessed.
13th November 2020 | Target: Texan Drivers | Reported Here
Vertafore, a provider of insurance software, has disclosed this week a data breach, admitting that a third-party accessed the details of 27.7 million Texas drivers.
The incident is believed to have taken place sometime between March 11 and August 1, and happened as a result of human error when three data files were inadvertently stored in an unsecured external storage service.
9th November 2020 | Target: Compal Electronics | Reported Here
Compal, a Taiwanese electronics company that builds laptops for some of the world’s largest computer brands, suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend.
Responsible for the breach is believed to be the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang, according to a screenshot of the ransom note shared by Compal employees with Yahoo Taiwan reporters.