ransomware

Rutherford County Inmates Get New Visitation Rights The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office, located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has been experiencing issues with their visitation capabilities after ransomware corrupted the video visitation systems.  The sheriff’s office has limited ability to remediate the issue, as the video systems are provided by VizVox.  The Daily News Journal has attempted […]

Delaware Clinic Falls Victim to Ransomware, Leaving Thousands of Patients Potentially Exposed Medical Oncology Hematology Consultants, a medical clinic located in Newark, Delaware was hit with ransomware.  In June, the malicious software riddled the clinic’s servers, leaving over 19,000 patient files potentially exposed.  The patient data compromised includes names, phone numbers, birth dates, as well

Boylston Massachusetts Public Television Suffers for Five Months After Ransomware Hit As of today, the Boylston public television channels and guides are back to normal.  In March, the station was hit with an unknown ransomware variant.  The ransom demand was not disclosed; however, it appears the demands were not met.  Six months after the attack,

Hackers Make $2,900 From South Carolina School District Dorchester School District Two, of South Carolina, was hit with ransomware over the summer.  The attack was found when the district discovered over half of its data was inaccessible.  After further investigation, they found 25 servers riddled with an undisclosed ransomware variant.  The school district was unable

Ransomware Attack Leaves Thousands of Patient Files Exposed The Salina Family Healthcare Center, located in Salina, Kansas was hit with ransomware in June of 2017.   The ransom demands were not met.  Instead, the infected servers and endpoints were taken offline until they could be scrubbed and backups could be installed.  Now, two months after

Ransomware Went Undetected for a Month — Exposing Thousands of Patient Files St. Mark’s Surgical Center, located in Fort Myers, Florida was the victim of a ransomware attack in April.  However, the attack was not discovered until May, when the medical facility conducted a forensic investigation.  The event that triggered the investigation is not being

LA Medical Center Infected With Ransomware Pacific Alliance Medical Center, located in Los Angeles California, suffered a ransomware attack in mid-June of 2017.  It is because of this attack, concerns of a data breach have risen.  With the hackers having access to the medical center’s systems, it is possible they had visibility to patient files

Cyber Criminals Breach the HBO Empire Recently, hackers leaked HBO television scripts and corporate emails.  Although, they claim to have breached over a terabyte of data, they have only leaked 800 megabytes of it.  The cyber criminal(s) going by Kind Mr. Smith, stated it took about six months to breach the network.  Therefore, they are