Cybersecurity

United States – Department of Veterans Affairs

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) informed affected users on Monday of a data breach that resulted in the exposure of 46,000 veterans’ personal information. The incident stemmed from unauthorized users accessing an application within the Financial Service Center (FSC) to steal payment away from community health care providers. In a statement, the VA said malicious actors used “social…

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Cybersecurity

United States – Maze Ransomware

There has been a huge uptick in the Maze Ransomware. To date 8 new occurrences have been seen where the Maze ransomware impacting small healthcare providers, municipal governments and a group of other shops like accountants. The important thing to remember is the tactic is changing. Data exfiltration is the target now. Here’s the Full…

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Cybersecurity

Canada – College of Nurses Ontario

The College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO), which oversees about 188,000 members, discovered that it had been impacted by ransomware on Sept. 8. CNO is still trying to figure out if the personal information of its 300 employees and 195,500 members has been compromised as has been reported by cybersecurity researchers who spotted information on…

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