Tim Haddock reports: El Monte officials were working to replace City Hall computer servers Tuesday, April 6, in response to an “unauthorized access” to its system that caused the cancellation of Tuesday’s City Council meeting and has left the city without email access. Mayor Jessica Ancona said she expected the email system, which the city…
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Administrative Advantage notifies patients of Remedy Medical Group after email hack
Remedy Medical Group is a pain management specialty practice in California. Their web site indicates that they are consultants to some professional sports teams in their area. Did a breach involving some of their patients’ data also impact any prominent athletes who might receive extortion demands? At this point, there is no indication of any…
UPDATE: Trillium Health IT specialist pleads guilty to stealing personal info from colleagues’ computers
Some days, I see a name in my news feed and think, “Oh, I know about that breach already.” But then I doublecheck, only to learn that no, this was not the breach I had covered a week or so ago, but yet another breach involving the same name or a similar name. Such is…
Brown University hit by cyberattack, some systems still offline
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Brown University, a private US research university, had to disable systems and cut connections to the data center after suffering a cyberattack on Tuesday. The Ivy League school’s IT staff said the attack focused on the university’s Windows-based devices and asked faculty and staff to switch to computers running other operating systems,…
They, too, also issued breach notices…
Each week, I post some articles on this site about breaches involving protected health information or medical information, but there are usually other reports that just get entered on my worksheets for analysis for Protenus. To give you a taste of how many more incidents we record but not necessarily post in a week, I…
Capital One notifies more clients of SSNs exposed in 2019 data breach
Sergiu Gatlan reports: US bank Capital One notified additional customers that their Social Security numbers were exposed in a data breach announced in July 2019. The day the breach was disclosed, the Department of Justice arrested and indicted the suspected hacker, former Amazon Web Services (AWS) employee Paige Thompson, who posted about stealing data on GitHub after infiltrating Capital One’s AWS…