Notifications of Enforcement Discretion expire at 11:59 pm on May 11, 2023 Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announces that the Notifications of Enforcement Discretion issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health…
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Culbertson Memorial critical systems fully restored after cyber attack
Twelve days after a cyberattack, Culbertson Memorial Hospital reports that its critical systems are back online. The hospital has not revealed more details about the type of attack, and reports that it does not yet know whether patient data was compromised.
Battle could be brewing over new FCC data breach reporting rules
Cynthia Brumfield reports: On January 6, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to update its data breach reporting rules for telecommunications carriers. “The law requires carriers to protect sensitive consumer information but, given the increase in frequency, sophistication, and scale of data leaks, we must update our rules to…
So then the law firm Uber gave sensitive driver data to for legal representation got hacked….
Mike Stevens reports: An unknown number of Uber drivers have been informed by a legal firm that represents Uber Technologies that sensitive data, including their identities and Social Security numbers, has been taken by cyberattackers. This data includes the drivers’ names. The world’s largest ride-sharing company has suffered its third data hack in the last half a…
NCB Management breach affected almost 500,000 former Bank of America credit card holders
NCB Management is an “accounts receivable management company.” In this case, that means collections. According to NCB’s March 24 letter, NCB discovered on February 4 that an unauthorized party gained access to their systems on February 1, 2023. They confirmed on March 8 that some information on consumers’ Bank of America past-due credit card accounts…
KFC & Pizza Hut Discloses Data Breach – Users Personal Information Stolen
Guru reports: Yum! Brands, Inc., which runs the restaurants KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill, submitted a notice of security breach to warn of a cybersecurity incident affecting individuals’ personal information that happened in mid-January 2023. Although some data had been taken from the company’s network, the company had previously claimed…