North Country HealthCare is a federally qualified community health center that provides comprehensive medical services in 14 locations in 11 communities throughout Northern Arizona. Their services include family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, dental care, behavioral health services, telemedicine, health screenings, and more. An April 2022 article about them reported that North Country served 55,000…
Category: Breach Incidents
Qilin claims attack on Accu Reference Medical Laboratory. It wasn’t the lab’s first data breach.
On December 6, 2023, the Medusa Blog added ACCU Reference Medical Laboratory to their leak site with some screenshots as proof of claims. Claiming to have 1.2 TB of data, Medusa demanded $1 million to delete or download the data. When no payment was forthcoming, they leaked the data on their website and Telegram channel…
Infosys McCamish Systems Enters Consent Order with Vermont DFR Over Cyber Incident
Swati Nair reports: Infosys announced that its subsidiary, Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS), has reached an agreement with the US State of Vermont’s Department of Financial Regulation (DFR). This agreement, known as a stipulation and consent order, resolves issues related to a cyber incident without requiring a hearing. IMS is obligated to pay a USD 125,000…
Obligations under Canada’s data breach notification law
Chiara Trinidad writes: What laws govern data breach in Canada? Data breach notification law is governed by the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). This federal law regulates the handling of personal information during commercial transactions. This includes the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data. By extension, this also includes the storage of…
Avantic Medical Lab hacked; patient data leaked by Everest Group
On June 10, the Everest Group added a listing for Avantic Medical Lab to its leak site, accompanied by a one-week countdown clock and four screenshots containing patient information as proof of the claims. When the attack first occurred, and whether Everest had contacted Avantic before June 10, is unknown to DataBreaches, but on June…
Nigerian National Pleads Guilty to International Fraud Scheme that Defrauded Elderly U.S. Victims
It’s so hard to believe that people fall for these scams, but it happens so often that we need to just be more diligent about educating the public and reaching out to family members and friends to educate them — especially those who may not spend a lot of time on the internet to read…