A firm providing virtual mental health services for children is the latest victim of Fortra’s widespread ransomware onslaught, which has spread its effects even further.
The American healthcare behemoth Blue Shield of California confirmed that data from one of its providers, Brightline, that was housed in its GoAnywhere file transfer platform had been taken in a data breach notice filed with the Maine attorney general’s office. Threat analysts identified Brightline as a potential victim of the mass breach last week. It offers online coaching and therapy for kids.
The breach notification verified that hackers—perhaps members of the Russia-linked Clop ransomware gang who claimed to have infiltrated over a hundred businesses via an unreported security flaw—accessed and possibly exfiltrated the personal information of over 63,000 patients.
The group has announced that they will release the data taken from Brightline “soon” on Clop’s dark web leak site, which they use to expose the stolen material absent payment of a ransom.[…]
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