From their notice: The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester (“MHCGM”) is providing notice of a recent data security event that occurred at a third-party community partner MHCGM had used for data storage, Center for Life Management (“CLM”), that may impact the privacy of certain information relating to MHCGM patients or those who were assessed…
Category: Breach Incidents
Illinois Gastroenterology Group is providing notification of breach first discovered last October
From their notification: Illinois Gastroenterology Group, PLLC (“IGG”) is providing notice of a recent incident that may affect the security of certain individuals’ information. On October 22, 2021, IGG discovered unusual activity within its computer network. IGG immediately launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party cybersecurity specialists, to determine the nature and scope of the…
Illuminate Education breach that affected NYC schools spreads to other districts
Benjamin Freed reports: A school district in Coventry, Connecticut, notified families of its students this week that students’ data may have been swept up in a breach of one of its vendors earlier this year. The breach-notification letter, dated Tuesday, stated that data belonging to the roughly 1,700 students enrolled in Coventry Public Schools may have…
Scott County, Iowa discloses data security incident
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…
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…