You may have never heard of Flathead Valley in Montana. I’ll admit that I had never heard of it until tonight when I received a tip to go look at a post on their sheriff’s Facebook page. And that’s when I learned that Flathead County schools had not only been hacked and threatened if they didn’t…
Category: Breach Incidents
Data breach made public, Ridgeview says it exposed some email addresses
Ridgeview Medical Center has informed some members of Ridgeview Community Network that a security breach may have affected some of their protected health information, according to a press release from Ridgeview. According to the press release, affected members were notified on Sept. 8 that their email addresses had been exposed by Ridgeview Community Network. Read…
NC: Morehead Memorial Hospital: Data breach may have leaked patient and employee information
Jessica Seaman reports: Morehead Memorial Hospital on Friday said a data breach has potentially exposed patient and employee information. The hospital said personal data may have been obtained through a phishing attack that affected two employee email accounts. Morehead Memorial did not say how many people were affected by the data breach. Read more on…
Children’s Hospital Colorado notifies 3,400 families after employee’s email account was improperly accessed
From Children’s Hospital Colorado: At Children’s Colorado, protecting the security and confidentiality of patient personal and medical information is of the utmost importance. Regrettably, this notice concerns an unintentional exposure of protected health information that may affect nearly 3,400 patient families. On July 11, 2017, Children’s Colorado learned that a team member’s email account may…
Roman Seleznev pleads guilty to federal charges in Georgia and Nevada
ATLANTA – Roman Seleznev has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud for his role in the 2008 hack of RBS Worldpay. Seleznev was responsible for cashing out $2,178,349 associated with five hacked debit card numbers. “The defendant and a sophisticated team of hackers stole over $2,000,000 from ATMs across the globe,” said U.S….
Hacked Equifax data up for sale?
And so it begins. By this morning, there was already one potential class-action lawsuit against Equifax that had been announced, and at least two ads offering what is alleged to be hacked Equifax data for sale. Indeed, things haven’t been going exactly swimmingly for Equifax since it announced its mega-breach that may impact up to…