An unauthorized user gained access to an employee email account at this Iowa hospital, leading to the potential exposure of sensitive data for thousands of patients. There’s no confirmation that data was stolen, but the hospital is warning patients of the possibility The incident was discovered after the compromised account began sending out spam and phishing messages.
Ransomware has had a nasty impact at this web hosting provider, causing a complete shutdown of company systems. The company says that a “limited number” of customer sites have been affected. Impacted functions included WordPress and DotNetNuke managed hosting platforms, online databases, email servers, DNS servers, RDP access points, and FTP servers.
sensitive customer data was exposed on a misconfigured database. Over 2.6 million files, including ID cards and biometric images, were left open.
