Elizabeth Shores reports: Patients at CHI St. Alexius are receiving letters from Welltok, Inc., a third-party vendor, about a significant data breach. Welltok said it learned at the end of July about a data leak that had taken place during the summer. Welltok said it notified St. Alexius about the extent of the leak on…
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CBIZ KA Notice of Data Privacy Incident (Prime Healthcare)
CBIZ KA, a third-party vendor for Prime Healthcare (Prime), discovered a security incident involving CBIZ’s use of MOVEit Transfer software, which has recently reported a security vulnerability. Prime takes the responsibility of safeguarding your information very seriously, and while Prime systems were not involved in the incident, CBIZ KA uses MOVEit Transfer to securely transfer…
More than 1 million Michiganders affected by Welltok cyberattack
Kristen Jordan Shamus reports: More than 1 million Michiganders were affected by a cybersecurity breach at Welltok Inc., a software company contracted to provide communication services for Corewell Health’s southeastern Michigan properties along with a healthy lifestyle portal for Priority Health, an insurance plan owned by Corewell. For about 2,500 Priority Health members, names, addresses and…
Line operator says 440,000 personal records leaked in data breach
Kyodo News reported: Tech giant LY Corp. reported a massive data breach on Monday, saying as many as 440,000 items of personal data, including more than 300,000 linked to Line messaging app users, were leaked due to unauthorized access to an affiliate’s computer system in October. The leaked data did not contain information regarding bank…
Attorney General James Warns New Yorkers Impacted by Medical Company’s Data Breach of Potential Identity Theft
November 28 NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today warned New Yorkers impacted by a data breach at a medical transcription company, Perry Johnson & Associates, to take action to prevent potential identity theft. The company experienced a data breach affecting nearly nine million patients, including approximately four million New Yorkers in…
IBM, Johnson & Johnson Hit With Second Health Data Breach Suit
Tonya Riley reports: IBM Corp. and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. face a Florida man’s proposed class action over an August data breach that potentially exposed the personal health information of more than a half-million people. Plaintiff Jarvis Bryant Jenkins alleged the companies were negligent regarding the safety of his sensitive health records,…