Rady’s Children Hospital in San Diego has been notifying patients whose information was accessed without authorization via an open port on the Internet. According to their notification, reproduced below, the unauthorized access first occurred on June 20, 2019, and was discovered on January 3, 2020. They do not explain how they first became aware of…
Category: Breach Incidents
Lodi School District Officials Report Data Breach At 2 Schools
It’s hard to keep up with all the school district reports of breaches this school year. On February 15, there was a report on Lodi School District that I’m first catching up with. It wasn’t a ransomware incident, and all CBS reported was the following: School officials in Lodi are investigating after student data was…
Lawsuit filed against MGM Resorts International over data breach
From the this-is-my-shocked-face department. Lucas Wright reports: A lawsuit has been filed against MGM Resorts, following the news that the company experienced a data breach last summer. Florida law group “Morgan & Morgan” says MGM failed to protect the 10 million customers’ personal information, they say was compromised. They also say the company tried to…
PIH sued after notifying patients of phishing attack that could have exposed their protected health information
On January 24, I posted a breach notification from PIH Health with a commentary on how long it took from the time of the phishing attack to notification of almost 200,000 potentially affected patients. There was nothing in their notification, however, that suggested that patients had actually had their protected health information stolen or misused….
More details emerge on one of Maze Team’s victims
On January 21 and January 31, this site reported on a ransomware attack by Maze Team on CrossroadsNet or Crossroads Technologies. It wasn’t even clear who was attacked, as one entity had no web site, and none of the Crossroads Technologies entities responded to multiple inquiries by this site about the breach. Then on January…
More than 10 million records from 2019 MGM Resorts hack; data includes celebrity guests (updated)
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The personal details of more than 10.6 million users who stayed at MGM Resorts hotels have been published on a hacking forum this week. Besides details for regular tourists and travelers, included in the leaked files are also personal and contact details for celebrities, tech CEOs, reporters, government officials, and employees at…