Joseph Lazzarotti of Jackson Lewis writes: According to reports, bank customers in Australia (yes, data breach notification requirements exist down under) have been affected by “an industry-wide” data breach experienced by a third-party service provider to the banks – property valuation firm, LandMark White. As expected, the banks are investigating and in some cases notifying customers about…
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MI: Thousands of Mary Free Bed patients impacted by Wolverine’s ransomware incident (with updates)
Note: This post started out being about Mary Free Bed being impacted by the Wolverine Solutions breach previously discussed on this site, but as other entities affected have been identified, this post is being updated to name them. Fox17 reports on yet another victim entity caught up in the Wolverine Solutions breach: Thousands of patients…
Health Alliance Plan notifies more than 120,000 patients of Wolverine Solutions Group breach
Entities affected by the Wolverine Solutions Group breach continue to be revealed. The ransomware incident at the business associate, was reported previously on this site as impacting more than 700 firms who are clients of Wolverine, and more than 1.2 million of those clients’ patients or clients. Today, the Detroit Free Press reports that Health Alliance…
Rush University notifies 45,000 patients after discovering insider wrongdoing at claims processing vendor
Last month, Rush University Hospital notified HHS of a breach that they reportedly discovered in December. The breach, affecting 908 patients, was coded as an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure incident with data located in paper/film format. At the time, Becker’s Spine Review reported that the incident was a mailing mix-up: According to the letter sent to affected patients,…
Alleged Data Breach In IT Company Sparks Row Between Andhra, Telangana
Telangana | Indo-Asian News Service provides some more details on the TDP incident: An alleged data breach by a company which provides IT services to Andhra Pradesh’s ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the action taken against it by Telangana police triggered a row between the two states on Sunday. On a petition by an…
More than 5 months after ransomware incident, Wolverine Solutions Group still notifying more than 700 companies and 1.2 million patients
More than 5 months after a ransomware incident, Wolverine Solutions Group is still in the process of notifying more than 700 companies and 1.2 million patients. Should they even have to, or has the government imposed too burdensome a responsibility on entities that experience attacks to individually notify patients when there is no evidence of…