With all the big attacks on third-party vendors, it’s not surprising that some entities are reporting two or more breaches in a short period of time. Imagine360, LLC, is a self-funded health plan for employers. On or around January 30, Imagine360 identified unusual activity within Citrix, its third-party file-sharing platform. Imagine360 terminated access to the…
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ARx Patient Solutions and ARx Patient Solutions Pharmacy notify patients of a March, 2022 breach
ARx Patient Solutions and its affiliate pharmacy, ARx Patient Solutions Pharmacy, have issued a press release about a data breach affecting patient data. Their notice states, “It was determined that in March 2022, an employee email account was compromised and accessed by an unauthorized third party.” The types of patient information that may have been…
Cyberattack knocks out satellite communications for Russian military
Joseph Menn reports: A satellite communications system serving the Russian military was knocked offline by a cyberattack late Wednesday and remained mostly down on Thursday, in an incident reminiscent of an attack on a similar system used by Ukraine at the start of the war between the countries. Dozor-Teleport, the satellite system’s operator, switched some…
Mount Desert Island Hospital notifies 24,180 patients of April network attack
On June 30, Mount Desert Island Hospital in Maine reported a breach to HHS that affected 24,180 patients. The hospital had previously disclosed the incident on June 5, when they posted a notice on their website that said that they had detected unusual activity on their network on May 4. An investigation determined that there…
TSMC confirms data breach after LockBit cyberattack on third-party supplier
Carly Page reports: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, has confirmed it’s experienced a data breach after being listed as a victim by the LockBit ransomware gang. The Russia-linked LockBit ransomware gang listed TSMC on its dark web leak site on Thursday. The gang is threatening to publish data stolen from the company,…
Breach Victims Have Standing When Data Misused, 1st Circuit Says
Christopher Brown reports: A data-breach victim whose personal information was subject to actual misuse has standing to sue the entity that suffered the breach, a federal appeals court said. Plaintiff Alexsis Webb plausibly alleged an injury-in-fact sufficient to confer standing to sue Injured Workers Pharmacy Inc. based on her allegation that information stolen from the…