Samaritan Daytop Village, Inc. (“SDV”) has disclosed a breach that they first discovered on September 22. The not-for-profit, which started 60 years ago as an outpatient drug treatment services provider but expanded its scope, reports that they could not be sure whether data was actually viewed, exfiltrated, neither, or both. It is all still under…
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Blue Shield of California insurance broker victim of ransomware attack
Blue Shield of California has disclosed that a ransomware attack on an insurance broker, Team Alvarez Insurance Services, has impacted 2,858 Blue Shield members’ information including names and one or more of the following: health insurance information, health plan member ID number, date of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and physical addresses. No Blue Shield…
Another law firm gets hit….. and yes, medical info was in its files
Today’s reminder that law firms have a wealth of personal, sensitive, and medically related info that is often not covered by HIPAA. Coughlin & Cerhart (C&G) law firm in New York experienced a security breach in early April. It is not clear from their press release whether this was a ransomware attack or not, and…
Cyber attack paralyzes Eberspaecher
The following is a machine translation: Hackers paralyzed the international automotive supplier Eberspächer with a major cyber attack on Sunday morning. The website is also down. To protect customers and employees, the necessary steps to counteract the attack were taken immediately after the attack became known, the company said. Read more on SR.de.
Judge rules in favor of University of Mississippi Medical Center in trial against former employees who stole patient records
Will Stribling reports: A federal judge has ruled in favor of the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) over litigation against three former employees who stole patient medical records for their own use and then lied about possessing them for years. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves on Oct. 8 issued a default judgment in the…
Sg: Employment agency that suffered data breach says most stolen data is from fake profiles
David Sun reports: An employment agency that suffered a data breach earlier this month has issued a statement acknowledging the incident, but said it never received any ransom demand to recover the data. In its first comments on the attack, Protemps Employment Services said on Wednesday (Oct 27) that most of the stolen data was from…