Attacks on businesses to obtain employee W-2 and tax reporting information are nothing new. And with more people delaying filing their tax returns this year, criminals have even more time to try to misuse any stolen data for tax refund fraud. On February 19, PaperlessPay Corporation in Jacksonville, Florida was contacted by the Department of…
Category: Breach Incidents
Zaha Hadid Architects held to ransom by cyberhacker
Will Ing reports: A computer hacker has attempted to extort money from Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) after breaking into its servers and stealing confidential information The practice was attacked by ransomware – a type of malicious software – which remotely accessed a computer at its London office earlier this month. ZHA alerted police on Tuesday…
Teenage hacker arrested in Madrid for hacking medical data and leaking information on a politician positive for COVID-19
Dimitris Kouimtsidis reports: A 16-year-old hacker has been arrested for hacking medical data and then leaking information about a politician who was positive with coronavirus. Agents from the Technological Investigation Unit of the Policia Nacional arrested the teenager in Madrid. He had managed to hack into the servers of the Madrid health service and obtain…
Medical Device Maker Faces California Privacy Suit After Breach
And once again, people rush to file potential class action lawsuits following a breach. It has been less than one month since Tandem Diabetes Care notified patients of a phishing incident that may have compromised personal and protected health information. But now one of those notified has filed a complaint in federal court, alleging, among…
Personal Touch and Crossroads Technologies sued after Maze Team attack
As reported by TopClassActions: A former patient says that home health provider Personal Touch failed to protect patients and customers from a ransomware attack on their computerized records. The hospital ransomware class action lawsuit was filed by plaintiff Lugenia Booker, who says that her personal information was included in the computer records of Personal Touch Holding…
Less than two weeks after an Indiana hospital reported a phishing-related HIPAA breach, they had a second one
I was working today on adding details to spreadsheets that I use in calculating the gap between breach and discovery, and between discovery and notification. One of the incidents I was looking into today involved a report from Lafayette Regional Rehabilitation Hospital in Indiana. On November 25, they learned that in July, 2019 someone had…