Electromed In August 2021, DataBreaches noted reports that Electromed had been hacked, and the incident affected employees and customers. Electromed later reported the incident to HHS as impacting 47,200 patients. According to subsequent disclosures, this was a ransomware incident that Electromed had discovered in June. In September 2021, a potential class action lawsuit was filed…
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Personal information exposed during breach in Edmonds School District’s network
Updated May 16: This incident was reported to the Maine Attorney General’s Office as affecting 833 people. KOMO News reports: The Edmonds School District said a “data event” is to blame for the technical problems that left the Edmonds schools without internet for nearly two weeks. On Friday, Edmonds said an investigation by third-party forensic specialists…
The darkness of not knowing disappears: How a China data leak is giving Uyghurs answers about missing family members
Rebecca Wright, Ivan Watson and the Visuals Team at CNN report: Imagine a world where your entire family has been detained or imprisoned, but you can’t find out why, or for how long. The police also have your DNA, voice samples and iris scans on file — along with biometric data on your children, your…
UMass Memorial Health settles lawsuit claims from 2020 hack
Another week, another litigation settlement. Top Class Actions reports that UMass Memorial Health Center agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve claims it failed to protect consumers from a hacking incident and data breach that occurred from June 24, 2020 to January 7, 2021. UMass informed consumers of the breach in October 2021. The breach…
Hackers breach Reddit to steal source code and internal data
Lawrence Abrams reports: Reddit suffered a cyberattack Sunday evening, allowing hackers to access internal business systems and steal internal documents and source code. The company says the hackers used a phishing lure targeting Reddit employees with a landing page impersonating its intranet site. This site attempted to steal employees’ credentials and two-factor authentication tokens. After…
“Now, hundreds of debts have been forgiven. Hundreds of rejections have been accepted:” Claims by hacker of Chile’s General Treasury of the Republic.
Access to Tesorería General de la República, the General Treasury of the Republic of Chile (TGR) may be up for sale on a popular hacking forum. A forum post claiming that tesorería.cl and tgr.cl had been hacked was first reported by Germán Fernández on Twitter on January 30. The post by a new forum member…