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French hospital cancels operations after a ransomware attack

Security Affairs

France’s health ministry announced that the Hospital Centre of Versailles was hit by a cyber attack over the weekend. The regional health agency (ARS) confirmed that operations at the Andre-Mignot Hospital were canceled, while keeping other services up and running. Prendre en otage la santé des Français est inadmissible.

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Major blackouts across Puerto Rico. Are the DDoS and the fire linked?

Security Affairs

A fire and cyberattack hit an electrical substation for the electricity provider Luma Energy, causing major blackouts across Puerto Rico. A large fire at the Luma’s Monacillo electrical substation in San Juan for Puerto Rico’s new electricity provider, Luma Energy, caused major blackouts across Puerto Rico on Thursday.

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French authorities arrested a Russian national for his role in the Hive ransomware operation

Security Affairs

The authorities reported that from June 2021 through at least November 2022, threat actors targeted a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure sectors, including Government Facilities, Communications, Critical Manufacturing, Information Technology, and especially Healthcare and Public Health (HPH). anti-cybercrime (Ofac).”

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How China Uses Stolen US Personnel Data

Schneier on Security

It was around this time, said a former senior NSA official, that Chinese intelligence agencies transitioned from merely being able to steal large datasets en masse to actually rapidly sifting through information from within them for use… For U.S. intelligence personnel, these new capabilities made China’s successful hack of the U.S.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in September 2020 – 267 million records breached

IT Governance

Notably, a patient at Dusseldorf University Hospital died during a ransomware infection after the facility was unable to provide urgent medical assistance. You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from September in this blog, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Ransomware. Data breaches.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

The sample provided includes email addresses and registration dates. We also found 14 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. million OpenSea records for sale on hacking forum A cyber criminal known as ‘bossmoves90004’ claims to have exfiltrated 6.9

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

We’ve also found 50 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list The past two weeks, we’ve found 2,038,302,060 records known to be compromised, and 797 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. Source (New) Finance USA Yes 33.96