Add 3,497 more Los Angeles County patients to the over 220,000 affected by the Sutherland breach previously noted on this blog. Update: The L.A. Times notes the total count for this breach is now up to about 342,000.
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Sutherland Healthcare identifies additional patients to notify of breach (UPDATED)
Sutherland Healthcare Solutions, who disclosed a breach affecting over 220,000 patients in California, discovered that additional patients had information on the stolen computers and is now sending them notification letters. Update: Abby Sewell of the Los Angeles Times reports: Los Angeles County officials said Thursday that 170,200 additional victims have been identified in a theft…
Update: Sutherland Healthcare Solutions breach affected over 220,000 patients, and counting (update1)
Well, I tried to warn Sutherland Healthcare Solutions that they shouldn’t let their breach dribble out and stay in the news cycle, but they declined to be more transparent. So now we have yet more news about their recent breach that affected more than 168,000 patients of Los Angeles County departments of Health Services and Public Health as well as an…
Sutherland burglars snagged City of Hope patient data (updated)
Among those affected by the burglary at Sutherland Healthcare Solutions were an undisclosed number of City of Hope patients. You can read City of Hope’s notification letter on the California Attorney General’s website. Patient information on the unencrypted computers included patients’ names, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, medical record numbers, account number and/or diagnoses. City…
Appellate Court Partially Revives Medical Data Breach Class Action
Cheryl Miller reports the latest development on litigation stemming from a 2014 data breach at Sutherland Healthcare Solutions. If that incident doesn’t ring a bell for you, it was covered a number of times on this site back in 2014 and you can find coverage linked from here. A state appellate panel on Monday partially…
Threat actors claim to have attacked City of Dade City, Florida
From the this-doesn’t-bode-well department: Avaddon threat actors claim to have attacked the City of Dade City, Florida. Although the city has not made any statement either denying or confirming any attack at the time of this posting, the attackers did post some screenshots of directories and files that seem consistent with their claims. The attackers…