Amy Farnworth reports: Lancashire County Council has referred itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office following a data breach involving its new HR and finance system. At this point there is no evidence that personal data has been publicly available, only that this information has been visible to internal users should someone want to find it….
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Scots cancer patient hits out after major data breach of medical records at NHS Lothian by staff member
Sarah Vesty reports: A Scots cancer patient had hit out after discovering his confidential medical records were ‘inappropriately’ accessed by a member of NHS Lothian staff amid a major data breach. Martin Laing received a letter from the health board last week informing him of the incident, which is understood to have affected around 90 people. The 57-year-old, who…
Sweetwater Union High School District still dealing with impact of undefined situation
Kristen Taketa reports: Days after a sweeping systems outage first disrupted student learning and forced teachers to remake their lessons, the Sweetwater Union High School District still hasn’t said what caused the outage or when it expects a fix. […] The outage was discovered Sunday in the district’s Microsoft systems, including Outlook, according to the…
FBI says it has ‘contained’ cyber incident on bureau’s computer network
Evan Perez and Sean Lyngaas report: The FBI has been investigating and working to contain a malicious cyber incident on part of its computer network in recent days, according to people briefed on the matter. FBI officials believe the incident involved an FBI computer system used in investigations of images of child sexual exploitation, two…
Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information For Calendar Year 2021- HHS OCR
From their report: Summary OCR received 609 notifications of breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, representing a decrease of 7% from the number of reports received in calendar year 2020. These reported breaches affected a total of approximately 37,182,558 individuals. The most commonly reported category of breaches was hacking, and the largest breach of this…
Data Breach Reported At Mount Pleasant Central School District
Ben Crnic reports: A data breach may have exposed information related to some students at a school district in Northern Westchester. The breach was announced by Mount Pleasant Central School District Superintendent Peter Giarrizzo on Friday, Feb. 17, who said that several student email passwords may have been compromised by the incident. After the data breach…