Joe Marusak reports: A prominent Charlotte medical services provider experienced a recent weeklong data breach in which some patient information was stolen, “including a very limited number of patients’ Social Security numbers,” company officials said Friday. In a statement, Charlotte Radiology officials said they found no evidence of “fraud or misuse” as a result of…
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Sea Mar Community Health Centers Hit with Class Action Suits Over 2021 Data Breach
Kendal Enz reports: Sea Mar Community Health Centers is facing numerous class action complaints for alleged inadequate cyber security procedures that resulted in a data breach of more than 650,000 class members’ sensitive information. The complaints, which were filed in November 2021 in King County Superior Court, were removed to Washington’s Western District Court this…
Only 3% of consumers freeze credit after data breach
Here’s a statistic I haven’t seen before. Rachel DePompa reports: According to a new study by the Identity Theft Resource Center, Americans know about credit freezes but rarely use them. The research was published by the nonprofit DIG.Works. It found only 3% of surveyed consumers actually froze their credit after receiving a data breach notice….
NY: Nassau notifies 209 workers their confidential personal data may have been breached by employees
Scott Eidler reports: Nassau officials have notified more than 200 current and former employees in the Assessment Department their confidential personal data may have been breached after some co-workers last year gained unauthorized access to human resources information about department workers. In a letter Thursday to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and county legislators, Technology…
2021 Saw Sharp Increase in Ransomware Data Leaks and Ransom Demands
HIPAA Journal has a piece highlighting some findings from Crowdstrike’s 2021 report. It begins: CrowdStrike has released its annual threat report which shows there was a major increase in data leaks following ransomware attacks in 2021, rising 82% from 2020. CrowdStrike observed 2,686 ransomware attacks in 2021 compared to 1,474 in 2020. There were more…
This site’s new “No help for you” policy
From the “Yes-I’m-grumpy-but-you-earned-it Department:” Over the years, mainstream journalists have reached out to me for information related to breach stories they were developing, and I generally tried to help them. In some cases, that might involve a few phone calls. In other cases, it might be an hour or more of my time on the…