PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Timothy Spillane, 39, of Chester Springs, PA, pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Joel Slomsky to accessing a protected computer network without authorization, arising from his intrusions into the digital networks of two suburban Philadelphia-area colleges. According to court documents, between November 2017…
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St. Lucie’s County Drug Screening Lab notifying more than 14,500 people after discovering multi-year misconfiguration of web portal
St. Lucie’s County Drug Screening Lab offers a variety of types of drug screening St. Lucie, Martin, Okeechobee and Indian River Counties. Juvenile & Adult Drug Screens Court Related Drug Screens Parent Visitation Screens (parent tests before & after visitation!) Random Drug Screens Pre-employment Drug Screens Employee Drug Screens (reasonable suspicion) Student, Cadet & Athlete Screens Teenager Screens (test your teen to…
Proposed settlement reached in lawsuit against Excellus
One year after Excellus settled with OCR over a 2015 data breach, there is now a proposed settlement in a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to the breach. The terms of the settlement, which have not yet been approved by the court, do not involve paying even one dime to class members….
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences notifying 518 patients after employee emailed PHI to her personal gmail account
Log Cabin Democrat reports: On Nov. 29, 2021, UAMS became aware that a former employee sent emails from her UAMS email to her personal Gmail account with patient information attached on November 15, 2021, while still employed with UAMS. The attachments consisted of Excel spreadsheets used for internal billing compliance auditing purposes and/or billing statements…
Br: Acesso Soluções de Pagamento customers had Pix key data leaked
Abhishek Pratap reports: The Central Bank (BC) reported this Friday (21) that about 160,100 customers of Acesso Soluções de Pagamento had Pix key data leaked. It is not the first time that BC has reported data leakage. Since the launch of the instant payments system in November 2020, this is the second time. The institution…
Some members getting alerted about a September ransomware attack, Charlotte YMCA says
Jonathan Limehouse reports: The Charlotte YMCA is alerting some of its members this week about a data breach four months ago, the nonprofit said Friday. The YMCA of Greater Charlotte, in a news release, said it recently concluded an investigation into a ransomware attack that was detected on Sept. 10. The Y launched its “response…