Seen on the county’s website, dated April 22, 2022: Notice of Data Privacy Event Scott County, Iowa (“Scott County”) is providing notice of a data privacy event. To date, we have no evidence of actual or attempted misuse of information as a result of this incident. In an abundance of caution, we are notifying potentially…
Category: Breach Incidents
Lewis and Clark Community College sends out notifications concerning ransomware incident
As reported previously, Lewis and Clark Community College was hit with a ransomware attack in November, 2021. They announced it immediately due to impact on the functioning of their systems, but it appears that they are just now issuing breach notification letters to individuals. Their notification letter says that information was encrypted but that there…
Has a security researcher been scared away?
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…
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…