Natalie Chuck reports that another district in Colorado has sent letters to parents about the breach at Illuminate Education that impacted more than 820,000 students in New York City as well as 24 other districts and 18 charter schools in NY: Someone, somewhere knows details about thousands of students in southern Colorado after a data…
Category: Breach Incidents
Breast Cancer Support Organization Leaks Data Despite Multiple Notifications?
Update: After posting this, tweeting this story, and getting retweets on it, it appears that as of late yesterday, the bucket was finally secured. Thanks to SafeyDetectives who kept re-checking the bucket and to everyone who tried to call attention to this to get the data locked down. DataBreaches did not get any acknowledgement or…
Excellus Health Plan Settles Data Breach Suit With Policyholders
Samantha Hawkins reports: Excellus Health Plan Inc. will settle a data breach lawsuit with a certified class over a 2013 hacking incident that compromised the personal data of approximately 10 million policyholders. Matthew Fero, who filed the suit against Excellus and several associated healthcare companies in 2015, claims that customers’ personal identifying information, Social Security…
Health startup myNurse to shut down after data breach exposed health records
Zack Whittaker reports: myNurse, a healthcare startup that provides chronic care management and remote patient monitoring services, said it will shut down at the end of the month after reporting a data breach that exposed personal health information of its users. The startup, which launched as Salusive Health, said in a data breach notice filed…
ARcare reports breach; Smile Brands updates its disclosure to 2.6 million affected
Two reports that I have been reading today: ARcare ARcare in Arkansas is notifying people whose personal and/or medical information may have been accessed or acquired in a malware incident. The malware enabled an unauthorized actor to access or acquire data between January 18, 2022 and February 24, 2022. The types of information involved included…
Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram Hacked, NFTs Worth Millions Stolen
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: On Monday, the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT project announced that its Instagram account had been hacked in a tweet. “There is no mint going on today. It looks like BAYC Instagram was hacked. Do not mint anything, click links, or link your wallet to anything,” the group wrote. Read more at Vice. At…