Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

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Class Members Can Claim Up to $5K Each for Documented Losses Tied to BreachA small, rural county-owned Georgia community hospital has agreed to settle consolidated class action litigation involving a 2024 hacking incident in which ransomware gang Embargo claimed to have stolen 1.15 terabytes of the organization's data and leaked it on the darkweb.

Data of Nearly 470,000 Patients and Employees May Have Been Leaked on Dark WebOmni Family Health, a California nonprofit network of community health centers, has agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle proposed class action lawsuits related to a 2024 hack that may have exposed the personal information of nearly 470,000 current and former patients and employees on the dark web.

2022 Ransomware Attack, Data Theft Affected 3.4 Million PatientsA California-based network of nine affiliated physician practices will pay nearly $50 million to settle consolidated class action litigation involving a 2022 ransomware and data theft attack that affected more than 3.4 million patients. Plaintiffs claimed their data was leaked on the darkweb.

Cybercriminals Demanded Ransom Payments Directly From Some Affected PatientsAn Oklahoma health system will pay $30 million to settle class action litigation involving a 2023 data theft hack that affected 2.4 million people. Some of the patients - including minors - have received blackmail demands directly from cybercriminals threatening to sell their data on the darkweb.

Medusa Group Tied to Attack on SimonMed and Threats to Leak Stolen DataTwo radiology practices are notifying nearly 1.5 million people of separate hacking incidents compromising their sensitive health information. Cybercrime gang Medusa claimed credit for attacking Arizona-based SimonMed Imaging in January and threatened to leak the stolen data of nearly 1.3 million patients on the darkweb.

Medusa Group Tied to Attack on SimonMed and Threats to Leak Stolen DataTwo radiology practices are notifying nearly 1.5 million people of separate hacking incidents compromising their sensitive health information. Cybercrime gang Medusa claimed credit for attacking Arizona-based SimonMed Imaging in January and threatened to leak the stolen data of nearly 1.3 million patients on the darkweb.

Ransomware Gang Nova Poised to Leak Patient Data, Lab Stays Mum on NegotiationsWith ransomware gang Nova threatening to leak patient data on the darkweb, a Dutch laboratory that performs cervical cancer tests for a government screening program is mum about the ransom negotiations, but it says the cyberattack in July has affected 941,000 patients.

Stolen DaVita Data Leaked on Dark Web by Ransomware Gang InterlockMonths after cybercriminal gang Interlock claimed to have stolen more than 1.5 terabytes of patient data from kidney dialysis chain DaVita, the company told federal regulators that the cyberattack first disclosed in April has affected nearly 2.7 million people.

Ransomware Gang Qilin Claims to Have 42GB of Practice's Stolen DataRansomware group Qilin posted at least 42 gigabytes of data stolen from a Texas pediatric orthopedic practice for sale on its darkweb leak site in February. In recent days, Central Texas Pediatric Orthopedics began notifying more than 140,000 people that their data was compromised by hackers.

The pardon comes after 11 years in prison for Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life without parole on several charges, including computer hacking, distribution of narcotics, and money laundering.

A new hacking group has leaked the configuration files, IP addresses, and VPN credentials for over 15,000 FortiGate devices for free on the dark web, exposing a great deal of sensitive technical information to other cybercriminals. [...]

Cybercriminals Say They Hacked 66 CompaniesThe Clop cybercriminal group is threatening to make public the companies swept up by its mass hacking of managed file-transfer software built by Cleo Communications. In a Dec. 24 update to its dark web leak site, Clop asserted it has "data of many companies who use Cleo."

Cybercriminal Gang Money Message Claims Credit, Publishes Stolen RecordsA Massachusetts hospital is notifying 316,000 people that their information was compromised in a cyberattack discovered nearly a year ago on Christmas 2023. Cybercriminal group Money Message had claimed that it stole 600 gigabytes data, posting patient and employee records on the dark web.

Millions of Customers Will Also Be Offered Monitoring of Genetic Data on Dark WebGenetics testing firm 23andMe will offer cash payments to millions of individuals whose sensitive data was compromised in a 2023 credential stuffing incident. Under the proposed $30 million lawsuit settlement, affected customers will also be offered dark web monitoring of their genetic data.

Ransomware Gang Daixin Claims It Published Sensitive Patient Info on Dark Web SiteA Louisiana-based ambulance company that provides emergency medical care services in four states is notifying nearly 3 million people that their sensitive health information was potentially stolen in a June hack. Ransomware gang Daixin claims to have published the data on its dark web leak site.

Cybercriminal Group Claims to Have Published 100 Gigabytes of Agency's Stolen DataTwo months after RansomHub claimed to have published 100GBs of its stolen data on the dark web, the Florida Department of Health is notifying citizens that their sensitive information has been compromised. The attack affected the vital statistics system used to issue birth and death certificates.

Court Filing: Threat Actor Stole Admin Credentials From IT Service Desk ContractorMedibank's lack of MFA on its global VPN allowed a hacker to use credentials stolen from an IT services desk contractor to access the private health insurer's IT systems in 2022, leading to a dark web data leak affecting 9.7 million individuals, Australian regulators said in court documents.

Tool Is Available for $200 a Month on Hacking ForumsA new tool set on the dark web is gaining traction as an attack weapon to target remote access services and popular e-commerce platforms. TMChecker helps threat actors seeking to compromise corporate networks and gain unauthorized access to sensitive data.

Feds Issue Alert as Change Healthcare Hack Affects Medicare, CVS Caremark, MetLifeBlackCat claimed on its dark web site that it is behind the biggest healthcare hack so far the year - exfiltrating 6 terabytes of "highly selective data" relating to "all" Change Healthcare clients, including Tricare, Medicare, CVS Caremark, MetLife and more.