February 12, 2025
The consulting firm Deloitte that built and manages Rhode Island’s popular RIBridges portal has paid the state $5 million to compensate for the ransomware attack that compromised and shuttered the benefits site in December. Separately, Deloitte is also covering the …
December 31, 2024
As Rhode Island state officials feared would happen, hackers responsible for a ransomware attack on a popular state-administered benefits portal have posted some of the stolen information to the dark web. Governor Dan McKee told the public that experts are …
December 27, 2024
Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) has reported it is responding to a ransomware attack that was first detected on December 19, a day when the rail service experienced temporary disruptions. Upon discovering the incident, PRT said it immediately launched an investigation, …
September 24, 2024
A Kansas county said it found unauthorized access and acquisition of personal information maintained by the county, including protected health information related to individuals who received services. Franklin County, located southeast of Kansas City, shared in a Sept. 20 update …
September 12, 2024
Lehigh Valley Health Network has agreed to a $65 million settlement of a class action with patients and employees affected by a 2023 ransomware attack that exposed personal and medical information including nude photos of patients. Every settlement class member …
March 6, 2024
CHICAGO (AP) — Doctors and nurses at a premier Chicago children’s hospital can again access patients’ electronic medical records, more than a month after a cyberattack forced Lurie Children’s Hospital to take its networks offline. The hospital provided the update …
February 13, 2024
Officials in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, said the government refused to negotiate with the hackers claiming responsibility for the cyberattack on January 21 that shut down computer systems and the county never paid any ransom to restore the systems. Instead, the …
January 23, 2024
A Massachusetts hospital that suffered a cyber attack in December has been hit with a class action lawsuit for its alleged failure to secure patients’ personal information. Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport experienced a significant shutdown of its electronic medical …
November 13, 2023
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Nearly a month after a “security incident” with all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack, Kansas judicial officials are slowly renewing public access to court information. But for now, that access requires a trip to the …
October 30, 2023
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident” and, while they had not provided an explanation as of Wednesday, experts say it …