The Week in Breach News: 06/29/21 – 07/06/21
Healthcare cyberattacks are popping up fast, we’re spotlighting sales-focused webinars this week and a look at overcoming the IT skills shortage with automation technology (plus how it saves you and your customers money).
Arthur J. Gallagher
Exploit: Ransomware
Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG): Insurance Broker
Risk to Business: 1.673= Severe
Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG), a US-based global insurance brokerage and risk management firm, is mailing breach notification letters to customers impacted in a previously unannounced ransomware attack that hit its systems in late September 2020. The company said that an unknown party accessed data contained within their network between June 3, 2020, and September 26, 2020. The company has apparently just completed its investigation.
Individual Risk: 1.522= Severe
While the company did not specify the types of data exposed, their SEC filing did and PII starred heavily on the list. Data exposed may include a client’s Social Security number or tax identification number, driver’s license, passport or other government identification number, date of birth, username and password, employee identification number, financial account or credit card information, electronic signature, medical treatment, claim, diagnosis, medication or other medical information, health insurance information, medical record or account number and biometric information.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How It Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Proprietary data like this is cybercriminal gold. It’s both useful for committing future cybercrime and quickly saleable in the busy dark web data markets.
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Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article252532918.html
Exploit: Third-Party Data Breach
Washington State Department of Labor and Industries: Government Agency
Risk to Business: 1.816 = Severe
Washington State informed over 16,000 workers that their PII may have been exposed in a ransomware attack on Renton market research company Pacific Market Research (PMR). The contractor was hit with a ransomware attack in May 2021.
Risk to Business: 1.516 = Severe
The exposed information for workers includes claim numbers and dates of birth for 16,466 workers who had workers’ compensation claims in 2019, which PMR had used to conduct a customer service survey for the agency.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business An unsecured database is easy pickings for cybercriminals and a rookie mistake that could cost the survey company a client.
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Practicefirst
https://healthitsecurity.com/news/healthcare-ransomware-attack-targets-practice-management-vendor
Exploit: Ransomware
Practicefirst: Healthcare Technology Services
Risk to Business: 2.223=Severe
Practicefirst announced that a 2020 healthcare ransomware attack may have exposed personally identifiable information (PII) of patients and employees. The service provider specializes in medical billing, coding, credentialing, bookkeeping, and practice management solutions. When they detected suspicious activity on December 30th, 2020, they shut down all systems, changed passwords and notified authorities but not before the bad guys scooped up data.
Risk to Business: 2.201=Severe
Practicefirst disclosed that patient and employee information has been impacted including birthdates, names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers, email addresses and tax identification numbers employee usernames and passwords, bank account information. Other data that may have been stolen is primarily treatment-focused like diagnoses, lab and treatment information, medication information and health insurance identification.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business Clients and employees won’t be happy about having this kind of personal information stolen – and neither will the Department of Health and Human Services.
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UofL Health
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/kentucky-healthcare-system-exposes/
Exploit: Insider Threat (Employee Error)
UofL Health: Healthcare System
Risk to Business: 1.575 = Severe
Kentucky-based UofL Health has notified more than 40,000 patients of an employee blunder that resulted in their personal health information being emailed to the wrong address. In this case, a UofL employee accidentally sent personal health information from UofL patients to an email address outside of the health system’s network. According to UofL, the accidental recipient of the data did not view or access any patient information.
Risk to Business: 1.502 = Severe
Patients whose data was impacted by the incident have been offered free identity protection services. No specifics about what exact data was accessed have been released beyond personal health information.
Customers Impacted: 40,000
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business Employee errors that impact compliance in a heavily regulated industry pack a punch after regulators get to work.
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United Kingdom – Salvation Army
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/salvation_army_ransomware_attack/
Exploit: Hacking
Salvation Army – Non-Profit
Risk to Business: 2.424= Severe
The United Kingdom arm of the evangelical Christian nonprofit Salvation Army disclosed that it had been the victim of an unspecified cyberattack. The industry press are reporting that the attack was purportedly ransomware but no confirmation is available at this time. The fundamentalist charity says that no programs were impacted and has not released information about the type of data that was stolen.
Individual Impact: There has not yet been confirmation that consumer personal or financial information has been compromised in this incident but the investigation is ongoing.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business organizations that hold financial information for donors should put extra care into securing it to keep those people donating.
ID Agent to the Rescue Learn more about the economics of an incident like this and how that can rapidly shift to gain perspective on the complexity involved. LEARN MORE>>
Spain – MasMovil
https://www.hackread.com/revil-ransomware-gang-hits-masmovil-telecom/
Exploit: Ransomware
MasMovil: Telecommunications
Risk to Business: 1.801 = Severe
Cybercrime gang REvil struck Spain’s fourth-largest telecom over the 4th of July weekend. The group claims to have “downloaded databases and other important data” belonging to the telecom giant, sharing screenshots apparently of the stolen MasMovil data that shows folders named Backup, RESELLERS, PARLEM and OCU.
Individual Impact: There has not yet been confirmation that consumer personal or financial information has been compromised in this incident but the investigation is ongoing.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: If client data was impacted, GDPR carries stiff penalties for customer data loss and those continue to climb.
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1 – 1.5 = Extreme Risk
1.51 – 2.49 = Severe Risk
2.5 – 3 = Moderate Risk
Risk scores for The Week in Breach are calculated using a formula that considers a wide range of factors related to the assessed breach.
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