Jackson County Schneck Memorial Hospital (Schneck Medical Center) was a victim of a cyberattack in 2021. Its 2021 and 2022 disclosures about the breach and its lack of timely breach notification resulted in a potential class action lawsuit filed in 2022. Its lack of appropriate and timely disclosures and information patients needed to protect themselves…
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Rite Aid, one of many victims in MOVEit breach, sued for negligence
Rite Aid was one of numerous entities affected by the massive MOVEit breach. In July, they disclosed that 24,400 patients’ pharmacy information including medication names and dates of fill, prescriber information and limited insurance information was involved. They were notified by their vendor of the breach on May 31. Now it is reportedly being sued,…
Au: Dymocks warns shoppers after data breach; data already leaked
Kathryn Magann reports: Bookstore chain Dymocks has warned customers of a possible data breach that could lead to their personal information being leaked on the dark web. In an email sent to members on Friday, the bookseller’s managing director, Mark Newman, said a potential hack was detected two days earlier. Read more at Bega District…
Dallas delays release of report that reviews ransomware response
Everton Bailey Jr. reports that if you were hoping to get the promised release of the report on Dallas’s response to the ransomware attack by Royal, you’ll have to wait at least two more weeks. The last council meeting ran late and the council never got to review the report, which needs to happen before…
More than a year later, Lifeline Health Systems notifies 75,000 people of a data breach
Lifeline Health Systems is a HIPAA-covered entity, although not all the data involved in their 2022 breach was protected health information. Some of the data related to employees and family members. But here’s the timeline Lifeline provides in their notification template: On August 6, 2022, we identified unusual network activity. We immediately initiated our incident…
The Blackbaud data breach — SuspectFile’s final chapter
Marco A. De Felice of SuspectFile is my brother by another mother. We don’t speak the same language, and we wouldn’t know each other if we passed on a street, but he has the same genetic disorder that I have: a determination to uncover information that breached entities try to bury or ignore. Since 2020,…