Dental Health Management Solutions (“DHMS”) in Texas describes their services on LinkedIn as providing comprehensive dental services to both the government, public and private customers since 2003. We specialize in Military Readiness for mobile and portable dentistry nationwide and in the U.S territories. We also provide dental services to Nursing Homes, Assisted Living facilities, and…
Category: Breach Incidents
6 Class Actions: Lawyers Across the Country Move Quickly After Hospital Data Breach
Charles Toutant reports: A New Jersey hospital has been hit with six class action suits after hackers obtained patient information in a data breach. CentraState Medical Center allegedly failed to take adequate precautions to prevent such attacks, and then compounded the error by waiting six weeks to notify plaintiffs and class members about the breach,…
Minneapolis Public Schools tap dances around telling parents and employees what really happened
The bar has been lowered. Which bar, you wonder? The bar for how low entities will sink rather than just saying they experienced a ransomware attack. Becky Z. Dernbach reports: Minneapolis Public Schools will open for in-person instruction as usual Monday, after a week of disruptions from “technical difficulties” and snow. In an email to…
True Health New Mexico settles lawsuit over 2021 ransomware incident
True Health New Mexico has agreed to a class action settlement to resolve claims that the health insurance provider failed to protect patient data from an October 2021 data breach. As reported by Top Class Actions, plaintiffs in several lawsuits claimed True Health New Mexico failed to protect their sensitive information from a ransomware attack…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
CO: The Red de Salud del Norte Joaquín Paz Borrero Hospital hit with ransomware The Cali District Government has implemented its contingency plan due to a computer attack on Joaquín Paz Borrero Hospital. The hospital is part of the Northern Health Network. “They encrypt the information on server number 4 with passwords and leave us…
Chinese national accused of 2022 mass data leak (updated)
Jono Thomson reports: An investigation into the leak of 23 million items of personal data, including that of the relatives of Vice President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) and Secretary-General of the National Security Council Wellington Koo (顧立雄), has concluded the hacker responsible was a Chinese national. Read more at Taiwan News. According to a machine translation of…