Adventist Health Tulare has issued a press release about a breach at a business associate in Nebraska. The June 7 press release states, “A data security incident was recently discovered by Signature Performance, an agency working on behalf of Adventist Health Tulare to collect payment for services.” Their investigation determined that an unknown party accessed…
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Frontier Communications Hack Ensnares 750,000 Customers, SSNs Stolen
Michael Kan reports: April’s cyberattack on internet service provider Frontier Communications enabled hackers to steal Social Security numbers for 750,000 users. In a data breach notice sent to Maine’s attorney general, the ISP says the incident affected 751,895 people. The company is preparing to send out data breach notifications to affected consumers as the hacking group allegedly responsible…
PruittHealth was hacked back in November. Here’s what we STILL don’t know.
What happens when threat actors leak data on the dark web but the victim entity doesn’t access it in time to figure out what was leaked? That’s what happened to PruittHealth in Georgia last year. How many people are they notifying because they can’t figure out what was accessed, acquired, or leaked? In November 2023,…
Numotion data breach affected 602,265 patients
In March 2023, United Seating and Mobility, LLC, d/b/a Numotion (“Numotion”) paid the government $7 million to resolve allegations that it made false claims in submitting reimbursement requests to Kentucky Medicaid, two of Kentucky Medicaid’s Managed Care Organization contractors (MCOs), MO HealthNet (Missouri Medicaid), and D.C. Medicaid (archived). Numotion is a nationwide provider of durable…
Data breach involving two former Kalamazoo employees under criminal investigation
Here’s your occasional reminder about insider-wrongdoing breaches. Katie Sergent reports: City officials notified all staff of a data breach impacting about 250 current and former city employees, according to Kalamazoo Communications Manager Michael Smith in a statement to News Channel 3 Wednesday. The breach involved two former city employees, and was discovered on March 28…
Germany’s Christian Democratic party hit by ‘serious’ cyberattack
Euractiv and Reuters report: Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the country’s leading opposition party, has been hit by a major cyberattack and has taken parts of its IT-infrastructure off the grid as a precautionary measure, authorities said on Saturday (1 June). “There was a serious cyber attack on the CDU network,” Germany’s Interior Ministry said…