Paul Sisson reports: Scripps Health announced Tuesday that it has begun notifying nearly 150,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen by hackers during the ransomware attack that hit the local health care giant on May 1. In a statement, San Diego’s second-largest medical provider says that it is “beginning to mail notification letters to…
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ND: Data Security Breach at Ralph Engelstad Arena
Valley News Live reports: Hundreds of employees at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks are victims of a data security breach. In a message to employees Tuesday, Jody Hodgson, General Manager of the Ralph, says the incident happened in December 2020 and resulted in unauthorized access to some employee information. 318 employees are affected,…
20/20 Eye Care Network and Hearing Care Network notify 3,253,822 health plan members of breach that deleted contents of AWS buckets
20/20 Eye Care Network, Inc. is a managed vision care company in Florida that offers administrative services to health plans. 20/20 Hearing Care Network expands those services into hearing care. On May 28, 20/20’s Chief Compliance Officer notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office of an incident in which their Amazon AWS S3 buckets were accessed…
MA: Sturdy Hospital pays ransom after patient information is stolen
Updated June 1: External counsel for the hospital notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that this incident resulted in notifications to 42,336 people and that those affected were offered two years of Experian credit and identity monitoring services. Updated June 3: It seems that on May 28, they notified HHS that they notified 57,379, so…
UMD-Baltimore updates Accellion breach notification after finding PII and PHI involved
On April 1, DataBreaches.net reported that the University of Maryland, Baltimore was one of the educational entities impacted by the CLOP hack and exfiltration of Accellion client data, but that neither UMD nor Accellion even knew that until the last week in March. This week, the university issued an updated press release that reveals that…
Hoboken Radiology reveals breach of imaging server that began in 2019
Hoboken Radiology LLC in New Jersey issued a press release yesterday about an incident that began in June, 2019. The full text of the release is below the separator. DataBreaches.net has sent an inquiry to the practice asking them who informed them in November — was it law enforcement, a vendor, a researcher, or their…