Felix Cortez reports: Just months after Watsonville Community Hospital was hit by a cyber-attack, roughly 20 employees at the hospital now say they’re the victims of identity theft. “We heard from a few of our employees that they reported there were fraudulent tax filings in their name, so someone else had tried to file a…
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Former University of Michigan Football Quarterbacks Coach and Co-Offensive Coordinator Indicted on Charges of Unauthorized Access to Computers and Aggravated Identity Theft
DETROIT – Former University of Michigan Co-Offensive Coordinator Matthew Weiss—age 42, of Ann Arbor—was charged today in a 24-count indictment alleging 14 counts of unauthorized access to computers and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft, Acting United States Attorney Julie A. Beck announced. Beck was joined in the announcement by Cheyvoryea Gibson, Special Agent in Charge,…
Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank
Jessica Lyons reports: One of the world’s largest sperm banks, California Cryobank, is in a sticky situation.… It’s had to tell folks their sensitive information, including names and bank account numbers, was likely stolen from it by digital intruders. The IT break-in occurred between April 20 and April 22, last year, according to a notification…
Almost one month after Brain Cipher claimed to have attacked them, Pulmonary Physicians of South Florida has yet to publicly confirm or deny any breach
Pulmonary Physicians of South Florida (PPSF) describe themselves as a group of experienced and highly qualified pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine physicians. “We provide comprehensive, state of the art diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the lungs in every hospital in Miami-Dade County, as well as in select hospitals in Broward and Monroe counties,”…
What is WikiLeaksV2 doing with a ransomware gang? Spoiler alert: It’s not extortion.
As previously reported on this site, in September 2023, Cardiovascular Consultants Ltd. (CVC) in Arizona experienced a ransomware attack. In October 2023, the Qilin ransomware group added CVC to its leak site, claiming to have exfiltrated 520,961 files and 206 GB of data. And in December 2023, CVC announced the breach in a substitute notice…
Breach notifications needed to be made faster in 2024. Instead, they were made more slowly.
Although some members of the public may not realize it, not all U.S. medical practices or practitioners are covered by HIPAA. But for entities that are regulated by HIPAA, HIPAA has some requirements for notifying patients about reportable breaches. The first thing to understand is that for regulated entities, a breach is considered “discovered” on…