Chris Serres reports: A data breach last year at the state agency that oversees Minnesota’s health and welfare programs may have exposed the personal information of approximately 11,000 individuals. The state Department of Human Services (DHS) notified lawmakers Tuesday that an employee’s e-mail account was compromised as a result of a cyberattack on or about…
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Yahoo strikes $117.5 million data breach settlement after earlier accord rejected
Jonathan Stempel reports: Yahoo has struck a revised $117.5 million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history. The proposed class-action settlement made public on Tuesday was designed to address criticisms of U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California. She…
MA: Baystate Health suffers data breach affecting 12,000 patients
AP reports: A Massachusetts hospital says a data breach exposed information about some 12,000 patients. Baystate Health of Springfield said Monday that a phishing incident resulted in unauthorized access to the email accounts of several employees between Feb. 7 and March 7. The hospital says the accounts included patient names and dates of birth, certain…
TX: Weslaco hospital: patient data potentially compromised
Weslaco Regional Rehabilitation Hospital is notifying patients their information may have been compromised, according to a news release the hospital sent Monday. The hospital’s investigation, which included a third-party forensic firm, found that some employees’ email accounts were compromised in October 2018, the news release stated. Some emails included patient data, including names, dates of…
Hardin Memorial Hospital issues statement on ‘information technology disturbance’
On April 6, WAVE reported that Hardin Memorial Hospital had experienced some type of attack or interruption over the weekend that might be a hacking incident. Was it a ransomware attack or something else? It wasn’t clear from the hospital’s initial statement to WAVE and it’s still not been made clear. What has been made…
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Rips Into Equifax Over Its Massive 2017 Data Breach.
So the Congressional report on Equifax’s massive 2017 databreach was released. The title gives you a clue as to what you can expect to read in it: HOW EQUIFAX NEGLECTED CYBERSECURITY AND SUFFERED A DEVASTATING DATA BREACH STAFF REPORT PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE The report is 71 pages, and the following is…