Miami, Florida – On May 10, a federal district judge in Miami sentenced the last of 10 defendants for her role in a health care fraud scheme involving three physical therapy clinics that recruited and paid kickbacks to beneficiaries of Blue Cross Blue Shield health benefit programs (BCBS) and submitted false claims to BCBS for…
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2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: Vendor Incidents
Stefanie Ferrari of BakerHostetler writes: Vendor-caused incidents continued to surge in 2021. Nearly 20 percent of the total incidents we handled last year were caused by vendors, with more than half requiring notification. As in prior years, vendor incidents involved phishing schemes and inadvertent disclosures but primarily resulted from ransomware attacks on the vendors’ systems….
Cyberattack at Opus Interactive knocks Ruby Receptionists offline, disrupting service for thousands
Mike Rogoway reports: Ruby Receptionists, the Portland company that serves as a phone receptionist for thousands of small businesses, has suffered a major outage that knocked it offline all week. One of Ruby’s online vendors was hit by a cyberattack that left the company unable to accept any incoming calls or online messages, CEO Kate…
Over 1,200 IDF soldiers examined after WSJ leak on naval ops against Iran
Tzvi Joffre reports: The communications of about 1,200 IDF soldiers were examined and 10 officials were questioned after information about Israeli strikes on Iranian ships was leaked to The Wall Street Journal last year. […] The IDF told the State Attorney that over 1,200 soldiers were exposed to the secrets about the operations, while only about 450…
France sees boom in personal data breaches in 2021
By Mathieu Pollet, translated by Daniel Eck: France has hit an all-time record in notifications of personal data breaches, up 79% from 2020, the latest report of the country’s data protection supervisor CNIL has found. EURACTIV France reports. Over the past year, CNIL received 5,037 notifications of personal data breaches – about 14 notifications per…
Boca Raton Attorney Allegedly Leaked Clients’ Confidential Files
Joshua Ceballos reports: All Priscilla Haring wanted from her divorce attorney, Richard Glenn Ozelie, was a divorce. But, according to her complaint filed in Broward civil court in March, what she got instead was scores of confidential files belonging to “a minimum of 96 individuals” — a potentially huge breach of ethics by her erstwhile attorney. Read more…