Update of September 4: Sandhills subsequently issued a press release that indicates that they could not confirm that the data came from them. See the follow-up report here. Original post: Sandhills Center in North Carolina manages public mental health, intellectual/developmental disabilities and substance use disorder services for the citizens of Anson, Guilford, Harnett, Hoke, Lee,…
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Follow-up: Woman Who Stole and Sold Protected Health Information Sentenced to 2 ½ Years in Prison
There was a follow-up last week to a case DataBreaches.net has reported on several times, beginning in December, 2020 when Demetrius Cervantes, 46, of McKinney, and Amanda Lowry, 40, of Sherman, Texas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obtain protected health information from a protected computer. A third conspirator, Lydia Henslee, faced additional charges and subsequently…
Ransomware attack on Grass Valley
The City of Grass Valley has a notice on YubaNet that begins: On June 29, 2021 the City of Grass Valley discovered an unknown source had made unauthorized access to our information systems. The perpetrators of this cyber attack informed the City they had obtained data from City systems and threatened to publish the data…
Student private information breached in Fairfax County Public Schools
Remember last year and earlier this year when we covered a ransomware attack on Fairfax County Public Schools by Maze that impacted more than 170,000 people? Well, there’s no need to hack when it’s leaking due to human error or failure to adhere to federal law protecting students’ education records. Rick Horner reports: Fairfax County…
UC San Diego Health announces data breach impacting patients, employees, and students
From their substitute notice of July 27, 2021: To the UC San Diego Health community: UC San Diego Health recently experienced a security event involving unauthorized access to some employee email accounts. This notice provides up-to-date information on what happened and what we are doing. When UC San Diego Health discovered the issue, we terminated…
Former Intelligence Analyst Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison for Disclosing Classified Information to Reporter
A Tennessee man was sentenced today to 45 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally obtaining classified national defense information and disclosing it to a reporter. According to court documents, Daniel Everette Hale, 33, of Nashville, began communicating with a reporter beginning in April 2013 while enlisted in the U.S….