On September 6, The Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Center posted a substitute notice on its website about an incident in July that affected patients at their New Jersey and New York locations. The attack by Meow Leaks reportedly resulted in the threat actors accessing some protected health information (PHI) of an undisclosed number of patients….
Category: Health Data
Silence may not be golden: Visiting Physicians Network still silent one year after alleged data breach?
In September 2023, DataBreaches reported on an alleged ransomware attack involving Visiting Physician’s Network in Texas. The report provided screenshots of data leaked on the Threeam gang’s leak site and noted that Visiting Physician’s Network did not respond to inquiries about the breach. It is now one year later. DataBreaches has found no substitute notice,…
Thousands of Vastaamo leak victims seek higher compensation
YLE reports: Two lawyers representing some victims of the massive Vastaamo psychotherapy centre data breach say their clients are dissatisfied with the compensation amounts announced by the State Treasury. In late August, Treasury service director Tuomo Yliluoma estimated to Yle that Vastaamo’s victims will receive an average of 500–1,500 euros in damages for attempted or aggravated extortion….
Turkish Data Leak Scandal: Statements by Minister Uraloğlu and Journalist Haskoloğlu
There’s an update to another distressing “shoot-the-messenger” story where a journalist was arrested for simply reporting on a breach that the government denied (previous background). Now Railly News reports: The incident was first brought to the agenda by journalist İbrahim Haskoloğlu in 2022. Haskoloğlu was subsequently arrested after reporting that citizens’ personal data had been…
Atrium apologizes after employees fall for phishing attack; patient info may have been exposed
Chase Jordan reports: Atrium Health is apologizing publicly and notifying patients who may have been impacted by a malicious email sent to employees in April, the company announced Friday. Social Security numbers may have been among the personal information exposed to the criminals, Atrium said. An unauthorized third party gained access to a group of…
Proposed $65 million Lehigh Valley Health Network data breach settlement may compensate some victims $80,000
In 2023, a ransomware attack against Lehigh Valley Health Network by AlphV (BlackCat) involved the threat actors leaking nude photos of some cancer patients. In reporting on one of the first class action lawsuits launched against LVHN, DataBreaches pointed out how significant this situation and litigation might be, in part, because of the nude photos…