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Virginia’s Fairfax Schools Expose Thousands of Sensitive Student Records

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Dissent

Linda Jacobson reports: Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools disclosed tens of thousands of sensitive, confidential student records, apparently by accident, to a parent advocate who has been an outspoken critic of its data privacy record. The documents identify current and former special education students by name and include letter grades, disability status and mental health…

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It took an HHS complaint, but three years later, some Ventura Orthopedic patients are finally being notified of a ransomware attack

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Dissent

In August 2020, DataBreaches reported that the Maze ransomware gang had added Ventura Orthopedics to their name-and-shame leak site. At the time, Ventura did not respond to inquiries about whether they would confirm or deny the claims. And they did not respond to other inquiries from DataBreaches when the Conti ransomware gang subsequently listed 1,850…

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Wawa Data Breach Settlement’s $3 Million Lawyers Fee Rejected

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Dissent

Jennifer Kay reports: A federal appeals court has vacated over $3 million in attorneys’ fees awarded as part of a $12.2 million data breach settlement against Wawa Inc. The fee award issue now is remanded to the district court “to take a closer look at the reasonableness of the attorney’s fees in proportion to class…

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Exclusive: Daixin Team claims responsibility for attacks affecting Canadian hospitals, starts leaking data

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Dissent

  Daixin Team is now claiming responsibility for — and leaking data from — an attack that has significantly impacted five Canadian hospitals in Ontario. TransForm Shared Service Organization provides IT, supply chain, and accounts payable services to Bluewater Health, Windsor Regional Hospital, Hotel Dieu Grace, Erie Shores Healthcare, Hospice of Windsor-Essex, and the Chatham-Kent…

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HHS announces its first settlement in a ransomware case: Doctors’ Management Services

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Dissent

From HHS, this interesting press announcement: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) with Doctors’ Management Services, a Massachusetts medical management company that provides a variety of services, including medical billing and payor credentialing. The…

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Colorado GOP Wants Inquiry into Delayed Notification of Data Breach

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Dissent

David Migoya reports: Colorado House Republican leaders on Monday called for an investigation into why Colorado’s higher education agency allegedly failed to timely report a massive data breach this summer. In a two-page letter hand-delivered to Gov. Jared Polis and Attorney General Phil Weiser, five state representatives also urged an inquiry into why thousands potentially…

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