Alive Hospice in Tennessee is notifying patients whose personal and protected health information were in employee emails that were accessed by an unknown person or persons beginning on December 20, 2017 and again on April 5, 2018 after two employees fell prey to phishing attacks. The attacks were discovered on May 15, 2018. Here is…
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Billings Clinic employee’s email hacked during overseas travel; breach affects 8,400 people
James Woodcock reports: Billings Clinic reported a data breach Friday that affected 8,400 people. The hospital’s security systems identified unusual activity with an employee’s email account on May 14, according to a release from the organization. The account was hacked while the employee was traveling overseas. Read more on Independent Record.
Mueller indicts 12 Russians for hacking into DNC
Josh Gerstein, Darren Samuelsohn, and Cory Bennett report: Special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian military officers on Friday, and accused them of hacking into the Democratic National Committee to sabotage the 2016 presidential election. The indictments, announced by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, come just days before a scheduled Monday summit in Helsinki between…
TX: UMC Physicians offers identity protection to 18,000 patients after data breach
KCBD reports: UMC Physicians (UMCP) is notifying patients who may have been affected by a recent data breach. They are also providing patients, whose information may have been compromised, with information to safeguard against identity theft and fraud and are offering access to one year of credit monitoring and identity restoration services at no cost. According…
For $80 Million, Yahoo! Settles Shareholder Class Action Claiming Stock Price Losses from Data Breaches
Derek Borchardt and Craig A. Newman write: In the first notable resolution of a data breach-related securities fraud case, a federal court has preliminarily approved Yahoo!’s $80 million settlement based on multiple hacking incidents. As we reported, Yahoo! suffered two cyber-attacks in 2013 and 2014, which compromised the personal information of billions of users. Yahoo!,…
MSK Group notifying patients of data security incident
MSK Group in Tennessee, and its divisions, OrthoMemphis, Memphis Orthopaedic Group, Tabor Orthopedics, and Crosstown Back & Pain Institute, are notifying patients of a data security incident that they discovered on May 7. In a notification letter dated July 5 and signed by Kimble L. Jenkins, CEO, the orthopedic group offered those affected free services with…