Southwest Health Center in Platteville, Wisconsin is a non-profit community health provider. Yesterday they issued a notice about a data security incident they first discovered on January 11 that reportedly impacted certain systems. An investigation determined that an unauthorized party accessed or acquired the personal and protected health information of some current and former employees,…
Category: Breach Incidents
EXCLUSIVE: Marriott hacked again? Yes. Here’s what we know.
On June 28, DataBreaches received a message from an unrecognized sender. The subject was: “Breach of Marriott hotels! Very Important!” DataBreaches’ first thought was, “Seriously? Is this yet another breach involving Marriott or are some kids just trying to leak old data?” As it turned out, this was, in fact, a new breach. But how…
Update on Plainedge School District ransomware attack
On June 15, DataBreaches reported that BlackCat threat actors had added Plainedge School District in New York to their dedicated leak site. At the time, BlackCat (aka ALPHV) only offered a few files as proof but warned more data would be leaked if they did not hear from the district. The threat actors subsequently dumped…
ATC Healthcare, Community of Hope, The People Concern disclose breaches, Advocates notifies more people of its breach
Preface: In this post, DataBreaches summarizes four more notifications involving patient data or health data that were published this past week. Three of the incidents are new disclosures and one is an update. Note that the three newly disclosed incidents all involved compromise of employee email accounts. In at least two of the three incidents,…
Medical documents, other personal information found by landscaper on busy Jacksonville road
Today’s reminder that low-tech paper breaches are still reportable breaches. Robert Bradfield reports someone found a trove of medical records from Allen Eye Center. Some records date back to the 1990s. “I just know that I saw date of births, names, full names, addresses, phone numbers,” Matt said. Read more at First Coast News.
Alameda Health System’s second breach went undetected by investigators of first breach?
On June 24, Alameda Health System in California submitted a notification to the California Attorney General’s Office. The notification concerned a breach of an employee’s email account breach that began on April 30, 2020. The breach wasn’t discovered until February 23, 2022, and the account was locked down after that in March. According to Alameda’s…