Anissa Gardizy reports: It’s not just passwords, credit card data, or personal records. Now, it appears the hackers have come for our milk and Hoodsies. H.P. Hood Dairy said Friday that it was the target of a “cyber security event,” that forced it to temporarily shut its 13 dairy plants around the country this week….
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Shooting the Whistleblower? Defamation Suit Claims Nuance Communications Gave False Info to FBI, SEC, Retaliated Against Whistleblower
There is an interesting lawsuit stemming from an incident that had previously been claimed to be a rogue insider’s doing. Now Marc Stolowitz, the former employee, is suing the firm, Nuance Communications, claiming that the firm falsely accused him of hacking them to cover up the fact that he was in the process of blowing…
And as the work week draws to a close… (updated)
And as this work week drew to a close, we also learned about these breaches involving patient data that were reported to HHS earlier this month: Dialyze Direct, LLC in New Jersey notified HHS that 14,203 patients were impacted by an incident they coded as a hacking/IT incident involving email. There is no statement on…
WVa: Wheeling Health Right victim of ransomware attack
From the notice on their website: Notice Regarding Recent Data Breach What Happened? On January 18, 2022, Wheeling Health Right discovered that our organization was victimized by a ransomware attack that encrypted our systems. Upon discovery of the security incident, we engaged legal counsel and a data breach remediation firm to conduct an investigation into…
HIPAA’s Role in Setting Good Security
Matt Fisher writes: The Office for Civil Rights is promoting HIPAA as being able to prevent or substantially mitigate the impacts of a cyber attack. It is a bold statement from OCR and one that bears unpacking. Why is OCR asserting that HIPAA can prevent or substantially mitigate a cyber attack? The primary answer is…
Computer consultant sentenced to prison for access device fraud scheme
ATLANTA – Kevin Kirton has been sentenced for running an access device fraud scheme that involved stealing over $600,000 in fraudulent tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service. “Kirton created technical ‘solutions’ to conduct his own fraud schemes and help others commit fraud,” said U.S. Attorney Kurt R. Erskine. “Every thief believes they have developed…