On September 3, ABC reported that Roper St. Francis was notifying 6,000 patients about a breach involving their protected health information. This week, you may have read that Roper St. Francis is notifying almost 93,000 patients. There are two unrelated incidents. The first involved the compromise of an employee’s email account in June that the…
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CU Collections Notifies Customers of Data Security Incident
The following press release was released on Friday, September 11, after 5 pm. It appears to be the same press release CU Collections issued on July 29, with the exception that this one specifically mentions Wellspring Credit Union: CU Collections, LLC (“CU Collections” or the “Company”) announced today that it had suffered a data security…
CA: Enloe Medical Center also notifying patients after Blackbaud ransomware incident
Add Enloe Medical Center to those notifying donors and patients because of the ransomware incident that Blackbaud disclosed in July. You can read their notification here.
A data fail left banks and councils exposed by a quick Google search
Henry Dyer reports: Private details relating to more than 50,000 letters sent out by banks and local authorities were indexed by Google after a London-based outsourcing firm left its system hopelessly exposed. Details about everything from insolvency to final reminders of unpaid council tax and mortgage holidays were left available for anyone to view since…
SC: Pickens County School District internet outage caused by cyberattack, district says
Stephanie Towers reports: An Upstate school district dealt with an internet outage Tuesday morning. The Pickens County School District said the outages on school and student devices were caused by a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attack on servers tasked with running Pickens County School District Online Services. “I want to be clear it wasn’t a DDOS…
“Blue Leaks” data breach also affected SD COVID-19 patients
Angela Kennecke reports: The so called “BlueLeaks” data breach, which compromised the information of hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers across the nation in June, has a whole new twist tonight that involves South Dakota and people who tested positive for COVID-19. KELOLAND Investigates has obtained a letter sent by the director of the…