Protenus’s 2020 BreachBarometer is now available for free downloading. From their highlights: Our analysis is based on 572 health data breaches reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the media, or some other source during 2019 (Figure 1). As in years past, we do not have numbers for every incident in…
Category: Breach Incidents
Wise Health updates its breach notification of last summer
In July 2019, this site noted that Wise Health in Texas had notified HHS about a HIPAA breach impacting 35,899 patients. The report concerned a phishing incident in March, 2019 that was discovered in April, 2019. Last week, Wise Health issued another press release, reproduced below. At first blush, it might sound like a new…
NC: Wake County learns that 1,900 employees affected by breach at former benefits administrator
Posted to Wake County’s website yesterday (h/t, WDTV/Yahoo) Wake County’s former flexible benefit spending accounts administrator, Interactive Medical Systems, recently reported that it experienced a data security breach that disclosed the personal information of nearly 1,900 Wake County Government employees to an unauthorized third party. “We sincerely regret any inconvenience or concern that this matter…
Potential class action lawsuits filed against two more ransomware victims
On Thursday, I reported on a potential class action lawsuit that had been filed against two hospitals in Puerto Rico that suffered a ransomware attack. As I noted in my post, none of the named plaintiffs claimed that they had suffered any concrete injury or harm other than the cost and time involved in monitoring…
Relation Insurance Discloses Data Security Incident
The following is part of Relation Insurance’s disclosure notice, published February 13 on their site: What Happened? Relation Insurance Inc. (“Relation”) provides insurance brokerage services working with certain insurance providers, and we are issuing notice of a recent event that may impact the privacy of certain personal information. To date, Relation has not received any…
Mississippi Center for Legal Services and North Mississippi Rural Legal Services hit by Ryuk ransomware on Christmas Eve
A Public Notice by Mississippi Center for Legal Services and North Mississippi Rural Legal Services of February 5 begins: The purpose of this communication is to post notice that Mississippi Center for Legal Services and North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, [MCLSC/NMRLS] has been the victim of a ransomware computer system attack that has resulted in…