Bismee Taskin reports: Weeks after Delhi Police arrested four men suspected of being involved in the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) data leakage case reported two months ago, the four have been booked in a separate case of “data brokering”, ThePrint has learnt. As reported by ThePrint earlier, police had initially suspected the accused of trying…
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Mortgage firm LoanCare warns 1.3 million people of data breac
Bill Toulas reports: Mortgage servicing company LoanCare is warning 1,316,938 borrowers across the U.S. that their sensitive information was exposed in a data breach at its parent company, Fidelity National Financial. LoanCare is a sub-servicing and interim sub-servicing provider and a significant player in the mortgage servicing sector, handling approximately $390 billion in balances from…
Attorney General James Secures $300,000 from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for Failing to Protect Patient Data
December 27 NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $300,000 from The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) for disclosing the health information of individuals who visited their website. An investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) found that the hospital used advertising tools on its website that collected and shared private and personal…
Recent attacks on Fred Hutch and Integris: Is attempting to extort patients directly becoming the “new normal?”
DataBreaches previously reported a breach involving Integris Health in Oklahoma. The incident did not involve encryption, but the threat actors were reportedly contacting patients directly and offering to remove their protected health information for a small fee before leaking or selling the data of what they claim is more than two million patients. DataBreaches noted…
German hospital system hit by cyberattack
The Catholic Hospital Association of East Westphalia, is a network of six hospitals: the Franziskus Hospital Bielefeld, the Sankt Elisabeth Hospital Gütersloh, the Sankt Lucia Hospital in Harsewinkel, the Marienhospital Oelde, the Mathilden Hospital Herford and the Sankt Vinzenz Hospital Rheda-Wiedenbrück. As seen on the health system’s website at KHO.de: IT system failure after cyber…
Integris Health notifying patients of hack and warning them not to respond to the hackers
On December 24, Integris Health of Oklahoma started contacting patients about a cyberattack on November 28. The unnamed threat actors did not encrypt any of the health system’s files, but Integris learned that patients were being contacted directly by threat actors. Integris has posted a notice with updates and an FAQ to help inform those…