CBC News reports: A Toronto health network says some of its servers containing a variety of personal patient details were recently breached. The Scarborough Health Network (SHN), which includes three hospitals and eight satellite sites, said in a statement Wednesday their IT department first noticed “unusual activity” on its servers Jan. 25. Its investigation with…
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I.T. Specialist Charged in Cyber Intrusion of Suburban Chicago Health Care Company
CHICAGO — An information technology specialist has been indicted on a federal criminal charge for allegedly hacking into the server of a suburban Chicago health care company where he formerly worked as a contractor. AARON LOCKNER illegally accessed the server of the health care company, which operated a clinic in Oak Lawn, Ill., on April…
MO: Washington University School of Medicine notifying patients and research participants of data security incident
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has reported yet another data security incident — what appears to be the fourth one in five years. Washington University School of Medicine is notifying an as-yet revealed number of patients and research participants whose personal and protected health information was in employee email accounts that were…
Hackers Know Where You’ve Been Driving: General Motors Discloses Data Breach
Lucas Ropek reports: General Motors suffered a hack that exposed a significant amount of sensitive personal information on car owners—names, addresses, phone numbers, locations, car mileage, and maintenance history. The Detroit-based automaker revealed details of the incident in a breach disclosure filed with the California Attorney General’s Office on May 16. Read more at Gizmodo.
Ng: Robbers attack NPC office, steal birth certificates
Fikayo Olowolagba reports: The National Population Commission (NPC) Badagry office located at Town Hall near Topo Garage, in Lagos State has been attacked by robbers. A staff member of the commission, Mrs Funmilayo Bojrenu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Badagry that vital documents belonging to NPC were stolen. Read more at Daily…
UK: Two More Nails in the Coffin for Opportunistic Data Breach Claims
Victoria Leigh of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Following on from a string of cases in 2021 concerning minor data breaches (see our earlier article here), two further cases in Q1 of 2022 have continued the trend of High Court scepticism. Such compensation claims, usually involving multiple causes of action, often find themselves trimmed down and sent…