In more than 20 years of blogging about breaches, DataBreaches has never seen ransomware threat actors offer monetary compensation to patients affected by their attack. We have seen threat actors regret hitting a hospital or a facility providing direct patient care and then offer them a free decryptor and drop the ransom demands, but this...

DataBreaches.net previously covered the 2023 Lehigh Valley Health Network breach by AlphV (aka “BlackCat”). The breach garnered a lot of public attention when  the threat actors crossed a line by posting nude pictures of patients on their leak site. In 2024, patients settled civil litigation for $65 million. Now HHS has settled its own charges...

John Rupolo reports: University of New Mexico Health is addressing concerns after a cyberattack on Monday, with reports surfacing this week that a ransomware group claimed responsibility for the incident. “So what I can say is we’re also aware of those claims by that group,” said Chris Ramirez, communications director for UNMH. The community’s top...

Lukas Brandt writes: Criminals using the Amadey malware lost control of about 180,000 infected computers after operators from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) gained access to the operation’s backend and severed the connection between the controllers and the victims. “The next steps that we took were to disconnect that Amadey controller from all those victims,”...

Sead Fadilpašić reports: Japanese internet giant GMO Group has told its customers to scan their computers for viruses, back up all of their data, disconnect the devices from the internet and then shut them down. The announcement, which literally told customers, “unplug any cords connected to your PC,” was made in response to a cyberattack...

A press release from the U.S. Department of Justice: Artem Stryzhak, 36, a Ukrainian national, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for conspiracy to commit computer fraud in connection with a series of ransomware attacks that targeted hospitals, government entities, law firms, and other businesses around the world. “This sentence concludes a years-long, multi-continent...

The  Lokmat Times Desk  reports: A cyber attack on the digital systems of Kamalnayan Bajaj Hospital has sent shockwaves through the city. Around midnight, hackers broke into all nine of the hospital’s servers and encrypted its entire data in what appears to be a digital heist aimed at extorting money. The attack has put patient...

Alex Hickey reports: Two Welsh organisations have been censured by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a ransomware attack led to the theft of personal data belonging to 3,300 individuals, the vast majority of whom were children. Ogi Networks Limited (ONL) and the Local Government Data Unit – Wales, known as Data Cymru, received reprimands...

Source

Joe Tidy reports: German police have detained a Russian man accused of being part of a cyber-crime gang which caused chaos at London hospitals and contributed to a patient’s death. The hack of blood testing company Synnovis in 2024 led to disrupted pathology services across several London hospitals and was the first cyber attack in...

Source

Guru Baran reports: Ransomware gangs are moving beyond locked files and stolen data. Criminals now threaten employees, executives, and their families to force companies to pay. According to the Semperis 2026 Ransomware Risk Report, 37% of successful attacks included threats against workers’ friends or relatives. The findings show that ransomware is no longer only a...

Source

Audrey Liza M. Nolasco reports: Japan is confronting a mounting cybersecurity crisis, with a ransomware attack disrupting hundreds of organisations and a series of separate breaches putting millions of customer records at risk. One alarming detail: experts estimate that stolen Japanese driver’s licence images could be offered on dark-web markets for as little as ¥25,...

Source

The Asahi Shimbun reports: IDC Frontier Inc., a SoftBank subsidiary that provides cloud services, said Oct. 7 that a ransomware attack caused a system outage affecting 495 corporate and local government customers. The Tokyo-based company said it is still investigating the scale of the damage and whether any personal information was compromised. The cyberattack has...

Source

Here’s another case where the folks who were supposed to be the good guys helping you may be harming you. Zohar Pinhasi, 50, also known as “Zack Silver” and “Zack Green,” a U.S. and Israeli national, was arraigned today in the Eastern District of New York on wire fraud charges relating to Pinhasi’s false representations...

Source

Jonathan Greig reports: The alleged mastermind behind a strain of malware used to empty ATMs of millions of dollars appeared in court for the first time after being apprehended by federal authorities. Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre pleaded not guilty to several charges in a Nebraska district court on Friday and will remain in detention pending...

Source

Sergiu Gatlan has an update on a case previously noted on this site. A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer’s network in a ransomware-style attack. 57-year-old Daniel Rhyne from Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty...

Source

JiJi reports: Japanese police have captured a Russian national believed to be a key member of the “Qilin” international hacker group and extradited him to Germany, investigative sources said Tuesday. Qilin is believed to have carried out ransomware attacks against companies worldwide, causing major damage through data encryption. In 2025, the group claimed responsibility online...

Source

On September 22, WYPR reported: Luminis Health says it’s making considerable progress on restoring systems at two Maryland hospitals after they were hit by a cyberattack earlier this month. The company said in an online update that its telephone capabilities at Anne Arundel Medical Center and Doctors Community Medical Center in Lanham have been restored...

Source

Abinaya reports: An Armenian national extradited from Ukraine to the United States has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in Ryuk ransomware attacks that targeted organizations worldwide, including a company in Oregon. Karen Vardanyan, 35, received a 24-month federal prison sentence followed by 3 years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s...

Source

Amir Kurz recently reported: Three weeks after his arrest, the State Attorney’s Office’s Cyber Department on Thursday filed a major indictment against Michael “Miki” Bar, a 43-year-old hacker from Ashkelon who served as Chief Information Security Officer for the Hamat Group. The group itself has no connection to the charges. According to the indictment, Bar...

Source

Joseph McCarty reports: A Kansas county’s government says it has been hit by a ransomware attack. Ellis County discovered the attack on parts of its information technology systems Thursday morning. Officials said they “immediately took steps to contain the disruption” by isolating the affected systems and enlisting the help of cybersecurity experts. The county said...

Source