Anita Lee reports: Memorial Hospital is offering free credit monitoring and identify protection services to a “limited number” of patients whose Social Security numbers, health-insurance information and other personal details were part of an employee email account that a third party accessed. Janet Stuart, the hospital’s manager of marketing and communications, said the email account…
Month: February 2019
AltaMed, BlueShield of California notify patients and regulators after breach at Sharecare Health Data Services
From their press release, and I’ll meet you on the other side: AltaMed Health Services Corporation (“AltaMed”) has become aware of a data security incident experienced by its business associate, Sharecare Health Data Services (“SHDS”), that may have involved the personal and protected health information of some of its patients. AltaMed has sent notification letters…
Ransomware attacks would become felony with Maryland bill
Jared Beinart reports: Using ransomware to hold computers hostage would draw stiffer penalties under legislation — prompted in part by attacks on Maryland hospitals over the past few years — state lawmakers are considering. […] Maryland Senate bill 151, cross-filed with House bill 211, would define ransomware attacks that result in a loss greater than $1,000 as…
Update: Wendy’s settles financial firms’ lawsuit over data breach for $50 mln
Dena Aubin reports: Restaurant company Wendy’s has agreed to pay $50 million to resolve a 2016 lawsuit by financial institutions nationwide alleging that the company’s negligence allowed hackers to steal credit and debit card information in a 2015 data breach. Disclosed in a filing on Wednesday in Pittsburgh federal court, the settlement will be paid…
Major Crypto Brokerage Coinmama Reports 450,000 Users Affected by Data Breach
CoinTelegraph reports: Israel-based crypto brokerage Coinmama — which allows users to purchase Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) using a credit card — has suffered a major data breach affecting 450,000 of its users. The incident was disclosed in an official company announcement on Feb. 15. The breach is reportedly part of a mammoth, multi-platform hack…
Ixigo CEO denies breach of user data; says payments information is not stored
Sandeep Soni reports: Two days after 18 million users’ data of online travel and hotel booking company Ixigo was reportedly hacked, its founder and CEO Aloke Bajpai has confirmed to FE Online that the company has not found any evidence so far to confirm the data breach. “We have not found any evidence to confirm…