Top Class Actions reports that NuLife Med LLC has agreed to settle claims it failed to protect patient information in a March 2022 data breach. On May 9, the New Hampshire medical devices firm reported a breach to HHS that affected 81,244 patients. In their website notice, they noted that the types of personally identifiable…
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Covid Contact-Tracing Contractor Settles Data Breach Lawsuit
Christopher Brown reports: Insight Global LLC will pay up to $5,000 each to victims of an April 2021 data breach involving Covid-19 contact-tracing data to compensate them for extraordinary out-of-pocket losses, in a settlement given final approval by a federal judge. Lisa Chapman filed the proposed class action against Insight and the Pennsylvania Department of…
Reports continue to emerge from Community Health Systems entities affected by Fortra/GoAnywhere breach
The number of entities disclosing that they were affected by the Fortra/GoAnywhere breach continues to mount. Because a number of entities are part of CHSPSC, LLC (“CHSPSC”) DataBreaches wants to make readers aware of two notices: Community Health System’s security incident notice. and A map of CHSPSC locations so you can look at your state…
HIPAA Data Breach Costs Company Nearly $300,000 In DOJ False Claims Act Settlement
Stacy L. Cook and Iqra Mushtaq of Barnes & Thornburg LLP write: On March 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the settlement of a case involving alleged violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) as a result of cybersecurity failures and breach of HIPAA-protected health information. Obtained under the Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative, this settlement emphasizes…
Cyber attack downs major Israeli university websites
The Jersualem Post reports: Websites of multiple major universities in Israel were attacked by a group of hackers calling themselves “Anonymous Sudan” on Tuesday. Among the websites unavailable for browsing were the sites of Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Haifa University, Weizmann Institute of Science, Open University of Israel…
Developing: Stormous claims to have attacked hospital; apologizes minutes later, pledges to undo damage, and seeks forgiveness (Update1: was this a scam?)
Stormous Ransomware added Cameron Memorial Community Hospital in Indiana to their leak site today and posted a pointer to it on their Telegram channel. Then they appeared to regret their actions, posting the following only minutes later: We are writing to express our sincerest apologies for the recent ransomware attack on hospital IT systems. We…