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…
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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…
Pompano Beach warned nearly 4,000 residents of data breach involving Click2Gov
Wayne K. Roustan reports: A data breach at a company that handles the billing for municipal water service has Pompano Beach city officials working to minimize the potential damage. Hackers gained unauthorized access to credit or debit card data stored with software company CentralSquare and used for one-time online water bill payments made through the…
MN: Data breach hits Dunn Brothers, Chino Latino, several metro businesses
KARE reports: Customers at Dunn Brothers, Chino Latino, Sebastian Joe’s and several other metro businesses may have had their credit cards compromised last month. North Country Business Products, Inc., announced the security breach on Monday. They said a “recent data security incident may have resulted in unauthorized access” to debit and credit card information. Read…