Cassandre Coyer reports: As another cybersecurity compliance deadline hits in New York, the impact may be most deeply felt by smaller companies—as well as vendors and other businesses outside the financial sector that technically aren’t within scope of the regulation. The New York Department of Financial Services’ (NYDFS) latest Cybersecurity Regulation amendments go into effect…
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45 CHS hospitals were affected by the Oracle Health outage
This is reportedly all resolved by now, but on April 25, Becker’s Hospital Review reported that dozens of hospitals affiliated with Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems were experiencing IT outages after data storage linked to their Oracle Health EHRs was accidentally deleted: The hospitals have reverted to paper for patient records, with the issue expected…
Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office Employee On Leave, Suspected In Data Breach
Michael J. Rausch reports: An employee with the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) has been placed on leave for allegedly leaking personal information via a breach of data on over 100 former and one current employee. The sheriff’s office said that the leaked information included names, home addresses, and Social Security numbers. In a statement,…
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Notifies Additional Individuals Regarding Insider Wrongdoing Breach
There’s an update to an insider data breach previously announced in January 2025. Yesterday’s announcement brings the new total affected to almost 95,000 people. April 30, 2025. AUSTIN – The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is notifying an additional 33,529 recipients of agency services and other affected individuals that their protected health, personal identifying…
Cybersecurity experts investigating “suspicious activity” in Iowa County network
Evan Bolin reports: Iowa County, Wisconsin is working with cybersecurity experts after suspicious activity was detected in the county computer network. County spokesperson Debbie Siegenthaler says the county detected the activity on April 28. At that point, the county took systems offline out of an abundance of caution. Siegenthaler says some government services and functions…
Za: Cell C confirms data breach, warns users to remain vigilant
Nicola Mawson reports: Cell C, South Africa’s fourth largest mobile network operator, said on Wednesday morning that RansomHouse had unlawfully disclosed data after a security breach for which RansomHouse is claiming responsibility. The operator, with 7.7 million subscribers as of February, was attacked in early November 2024 and RansomHouse acquired 2TB of data, which has been corroborated…