Francesco Canepa and Andreas Rinke of Reuters report: Unidentified hackers attempted to trick European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde into letting them open a messaging app account in her name by posing as former German chancellor Angela Merkel, a German source said on Tuesday. The plot was quickly foiled without any information being compromised, an…
Category: Breach Incidents
Family Practice Center discloses a breach from October 2021
DataBreaches really and truly does not understand how entities can take so long to investigate some breaches before disclosing them. If HHS feels that seven months from the first detection of an attack to notification is reasonable or acceptable, then let it change the regulations. If it is not acceptable and HHS wants entities to…
Associated Eye Care Partners, LLC discloses vendor breach. Can you guess which vendor?
One of the breach notices that showed up in routine searches this morning was from Associated Eye Care Partners, LLC (“AEC”). The first sentence of the notification letter was: We are contacting you to inform you of a data incident experienced by a third-party vendor for Associated Eye Care Partners, LLC (“AEC”). My mind…
Bits ‘n pieces, Saturday edition
The following are four more incident reports DataBreaches has noted. It is not yet clear whether some of them involve patient data or not. CAROLINA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ALLIANCE in North Carolina has been notifying law enforcement, state regulators, and patients about a ransomware attack they detected on March 20, the day after it began. Covered…
Health Aid of Ohio settles class action lawsuit stemming from 2021 ransomware attack
There’s one thing I am sure of: even if I fail to cover some breaches on this site, class action lawyers will still be busy suing entities. Top Class Actions reports a settlement in a suit involving a Health Aid of Ohio breach in February of last year. Although not reported on this site at…
Pro-Kremlin hackers Killnet hit Latvia with biggest cyberattack in its history
Oliver Moody reports: Latvia has come under the most intense wave of cyberattacks in its history, including a 12-hour onslaught on its public broadcasting centre, according to a senior Nato official. The Baltic state appears to have been targeted by pro-Kremlin hackers because of a series of assertive steps such as bringing back conscription and drawing…