So of course UCLA Health System has been sued over their recently disclosed breach, even though they’ve said they don’t have any evidence that patient information was even accessed. All they know/were able to confirm so far is that the hackers had access to the part of the system that housed patient information. Law360 has…
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Army thought breach notification emails were phishing attempts
Oops. Jana Winter reports: Last month, in the wake of a series of massive breaches at the federal Office of Personnel Management, the Army issued a bulletin warning that some victims were being hit by hackers a second time, this time with an email phishing campaign asking them to input personal information into a third-party website to receive…
MN: Guests’ personal information found next to Motel 6 dumpster
Maybe they should change their advertising to “We’ll leave the light on, and your details outside?” Tyler Berg reports: A guest at a St. Paul Motel 6 said she came across boxes full of personal information laying next to a dumpster. Leyla Dupey said she was walking her dog last week outside the motel when she…
U.S. decides against publicly blaming China for OPM hack
Ellen Nakashima reports: Months after the discovery of a massive breach of U.S. government personnel records, the Obama administration has decided against publicly blaming China for the intrusion in part out of reluctance to reveal the evidence that American investigators have assembled, U.S. officials said. The administration also appears to have refrained from any direct…
KY: Metro employees’ personal information at risk after breach at cloud vendor (updated)
No. This is not yet another data breach in the healthcare sector. What it appears to be is a surprisingly late notification in a previously known breach, though. WLKY reports that the personal information of potentially more than 10,000 Louisville metro workers who have Concentra health insurance may have been impacted by the Medical Informatics Engineering…
MA: Some Amherst online billpayers warned about potential data breach
Diane Lederman reports: The town is notifying some residents who pay bills online that some data they provided to the town might have been taken, said Town Finance Director Sandy Pooler. He said the town was notified June 30 about a possible compromise. He said so far “nobody has been adversely affected. We are in the process of figuring…