Rachel Yonkunas reports: Multiple investigations are underway after a contact tracing data breach exposed personal health information of 72,000 Pennsylvanians. The unsecured information was collected by employees of Insight Global—the company paid around $30 million in taxpayer money to perform contact tracing in the state. “You could see people’s phone numbers, how many kids they…
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Presque Isle police data leaked by threat actors — somewhat
Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli reports: The ransom time clock on the Presque Isle Police Department’s ransomware attack ran out Wednesday at about 9:30 p.m. in a dramatic red-numbered countdown of minutes and seconds racing toward zero on the hacker’s dark web site. But it looks like the unidentified criminals have not yet made their next move…
FBI teams up with ‘Have I Been Pwned’ to alert Emotet victims
Amer Owaida reports: The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has shared more than 4.3 million email addresses, harvested by the Emotet botnet, with data breach tracking website Have I Been Pwned (HBIP) in an effort to help alert victims of the notorious botnet. “In all, 4,324,770 email addresses were provided which span a wide range…
AmeriFirst Warns Customers of December Data Breach
Mogin Rubin writes: The personal loan information of certain #AmeriFirst Financial, Inc., customers have been compromised, according to the bank’s “data security incident” notification. AmeriFirst said it discovered the breach on April 12, 2021, which infiltrated the bank’s data storage from Dec. 2 to Dec. 10, 2020. Read more on The National Law Review.
CA: St. John’s Well Child and Family Center notifies patients of breach
April 29, 2021 – St. John’s Well Child and Family Center (“St. John’s”) has learned of a data security incident that involved personal or health information belonging to certain current and former patients. On April 29, 2021, St. John’s notified potentially-affected patients of the incident. On February 3, 2021, St. John’s experienced a data security…
Thrifty Drug discloses security breach
Thrifty Drug Stores Inc., which does business as Thrifty White, is notifying customers about a security breach. Thrifty Drug in a statement said it worked with a business associate, Capture Rx, that discovered certain files on its system were accessed without authorization in February. Read more on Bismarck Tribune.