The Twitter account of a researcher known on Twitter as @ido_cohen2 is gone and their DarkFeed.io site has an “under maintenance” notice for the past day. According to a source, they have been scared away for good. Have they been? Over the past months, DataBreaches.net has occasionally been contacted by someone who appears to be…
Category: Breach Incidents
TX: Dayton Independent School District reports breach
No significant details on this one yet, but Dayton Independent School District in Texas notified the Texas Attorney General’s Office that 841 Texans were notified by mail on April 14 of a data breach that involved names and Social Security Numbers. DataBreaches.net has emailed the district to ask for details and will update this post…
Newman Regional Health notifies 52,224 patients after long-running breach of employee email accounts
Newman Regional Health (NRH) is notifying more than 52,000 patients after an investigation revealed unauthorized access to a limited number of their employee e-mail accounts between January 26, 2021 and November 23, 2021. NRH is not a large hospital. According to their site, the Kansas hospital is a not-for-profit 25-bed critical access hospital, owned by…
SuperCare Health Sued After Data Breach
The gap from the disclosure of a data breach to the filing of a potential class-action lawsuit is often a matter of weeks (or less), although a lot of lawsuits are dismissed for lack of Article III standing (see a 2021 review of data breach litigation here). In March, in-home respiratory care provider SuperCare…
About 1,700 MetroHealth patients affected by data breach
Jordan Unger reports: The MetroHealth System confirmed Wednesday that about 1,700 patients were affected by an accidental data breach. According to MetroHealth, the issue occurred during an upgrade to their electronic medical record system on Nov. 13. When MetroHealth sent out records to some of their patients, the name, date of service and provider name of…
Patients increasingly suing hospitals over data breaches
Jeff Lagasse reports: Industries are increasingly being sued by consumers for data breaches, but the sector with the biggest litigation increase is healthcare, according to new findings from the law firm BakerHostetler. In fact, healthcare comprises 23% of lawsuits due to data breaches. The next highest after that is business and professional services at 17%,…