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Indiana justices agree to hear hospital records suit stemming from insider snooping case

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Dissent

Attempts to hold an entity liable for the wrongdoing of an employee has produced mixed results in the courts. Here’s a case in Indiana like that, below.  As seen on The Indiana Lawyer: Justices last week granted transfer in the case of Community Health Network, Inc. v. Heather McKenzie, et al., 20S-CT-648. Heather McKenzie’s medical records…

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Is Rand McNally just routinely “upgrading systems” or are they dealing with an attack?

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Dissent

A notice on their web site says that Rand McNally is upgrading their systems: Oh really?  Why didn’t their site just admit what they wrote in email: “Dear Valued Customer, Rand McNally recently discovered a disruption to certain portions of our computer network. We commenced an immediate investigation that included taking certain systems offline and…

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Ransomware attack hits Baltimore County Public Schools

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Dissent

Ethan McLeod reports: Baltimore County schools are out one day early during the holiday week after the system’s networks were struck by ransomware. The school system had initially characterized the disruption as “issues with our network” Wednesday morning, but said in a follow-up post on social media that it was attributable to a ransomware attack…

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Bad Medicine: Hospital Hit With Multiple Data Breach Class Actions for Unauthorized Access of Patient Records

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Dissent

Kristin L. Bryan of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Healthcare data breaches are on the rise-recent estimates peg the number of patient records breached in 2019 as exceeding 41 million individuals.  Additionally, approximately 60% of all healthcare data breaches are caused by internal actors—a statistic underscored by consecutive data breach class actions filed against the Mayo…

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Illinois Valley Community College sends letter warning of data breach

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Dissent

Michael Urbanec reports: Illinois Valley Community College has sent out more than 160,000 letters to current and former students, faculty and applicants warning them that their data may have been compromised in connection with a data breach back in April. This attack was originally noted on this site in April, but this site had followed…

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NY: Four Winds Hospital reveals September ransomware attack

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Dissent

On September 1, Four Winds Hospital in Katonah, New York discovered that they had been attacked. On November 14, they issued a statement on their site and in local media. From that statement: What happened?  In September 2020, Four Winds Hospital in Katonah was the victim of a ransomware attack that prevented the Hospital from accessing…

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