Connexin Software, a business associate to numerous pediatric practices, recently notified HHS that it experienced a breach that affected 2,216,365 patients. One thing DataBreaches noted with interest in their substitute notice below is their statement that an unauthorized individual was able to access an offline set of patient data used for data conversion and troubleshooting. …
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One Brooklyn Health System offline for more than one week — has it been hit with ransomware?
If it sounds like a ransomware attack and they won’t tell you what’s going on for more than one week, I think ransomware sounds like a reasonable guess, and DataBreaches understands why some people are suggesting that. On November 25, The City reported: The computer network system at a major Brooklyn hospital network has been…
GA: Federal magistrate judge recommends dismissing hacking case against Vikas Singla
In June 2021, DataBreaches reported that Vikas Singla had been indicted on charges relating to a 2018 cyberattack on Gwinnett Medical Center. At the time of the alleged attack, Singla was the chief operating officer of a metro-Atlanta network security company. He was charged with 18 counts of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act…
IN: Crown Point Community School Corp. students to return to school Tuesday
William Skipworth reports: Crown Point Community School Corp. students are set to return to class Tuesday morning after a network outage and fears over a potential cybersecurity breach closed district schools on Monday. The school district said its network may have been compromised during a network outage last week. In response to that, it sent…
Developing: Data purportedly from Kenosha Unified School District shows up on dark web
On October 22, DataBreaches reported that Kenosha Unified School District in Wisconsin had been added to Snatch Team’s leak site and then removed without explanation. The district had previously disclosed an incident in September. Snatch offered no proof pack and the quick removal of the listing left DataBreaches wondering if the district had decided to…
In New Hampshire, school technology directors collaborate to protect student data
Eileen O’Grady reports that New Hampshire schools have pooled resources to hire someone who will negotiate with tech and app vendors to make sure that the contracts protect the schools and that contracts aren’t suddenly changed on them, etc. For the past three years, an alliance of school technology directors called the New Hampshire Student…