Derick Hutchinson reports: Henry Ford Health has confirmed that an email phishing scheme led to a data breach affecting 168,000 patients. Patients were told Monday that someone conducting an email phishing scheme gained access to business email accounts on March 30, 2023. That access was quickly discovered, and the email accounts were secured, according to…
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No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking, Monday edition: Dating App That Claims 50 Million Users Suffered a Data Breach
Jeremiah Fowler writes: Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained approximately 2.3 million records. Upon further investigation, it became clear that these records were associated with multiple dating applications contained in a single database. A majority of the records referred to an application called 419 Dating – Chat…
Two California plastic surgery practices suffer cyberattacks and embarrassing patient data leaks
Two recent breaches involving plastic surgery practices in California have leaked patient data. One of the breaches is by a well-known group that has done such things before. The other incident is by an unnamed individual or group. Both leaks contain some sensitive private images or videos in addition to patient data. On June 21,…
TX: City of Odessa dealing with data breach
Micah Allen reports: According to the City of Odessa, mayor Joven was advised that the city dealt with a serious data breach. It was discovered that accounts assigned to a terminated high-ranking employee have been recently accessed, and sensitive information was transferred. Read more at CBS7, who will be reporting more on this story later…
BlackCat adds a community behavioral health center in Alabama to its leak site (UPDATED)
AlphV (aka BlackCat) threat actors have added Highland Health Systems in Alabama to their leak site. As proof of claims, they have leaked a number of files with employee and patient data or information, including part of a psychiatric intake form with a narrative from 2008. Other files are more current. Highland Health Systems is…
Eleventh Circuit Requests Refined Class Definition For Data Breach Class Action
Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Alex W. Karasik, and George J. Schaller of Duane Morris write: In Steinmetz et al. v. Brinker International, Inc., No. 21-13146, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 17539 (11th Cir. July 11, 2023), the Eleventh Circuit vacated the district court’s order certifying a nationwide class and California-only class in a data breach case. In so…