Hays Post reports: Authorities are investigating a data breach that may have affected hundreds of customers in Kansas. On Friday, the City of Topeka was notified by their Utility Billing Payment System software vendor Central Square that the city had been a potential victim cyber-attack, according to a media release. This potential data breach has…
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Twelve US states join for the first time to file multistate data breach lawsuit
Catalin Cimpanu has a good write-up about the multistate lawsuit against Medical Informatics that I noted earlier this week: Attorneys general from twelve US states have joined together to file the first-ever joint cross-state HIPAA lawsuit against a healthcare provider that got hacked in the summer of 2015. The lawsuit, filed in an Indiana court…
Florida contractor physicians’ group settles HHS claims after they failed to have a BA agreement in place with a vendor who had a breach
There is a follow-up to a 2014 breach reported on this site at the time. But it turns out there was an interesting twist to this case that HHS followed up. Here is their press release: Advanced Care Hospitalists PL (ACH) has agreed to pay $500,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the…
Medical Informatics sued by multiple states over 2015 breach
A 2015 hack of Medical Informatics stayed in the headlines for quite a while because it compromised the data, including health information, of 3.9 million people. In addition to suits filed by consumers, state attorneys general have also sued the business associate, as Dave Gong reports: Fort Wayne-based Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. failed to secure…
Indio Water Authority notifies residents of Click2Gov breach
In reviewing the Click2Gov breaches, I just discovered another one from October that I hadn’t posted on this site. Let’s remedy that now. Statement on Click2Gov Data Security Incident INDIO, CA (October 12, 2018) – Indio Water Authority (IWA) was informed in September of a cybersecurity incident potentially affecting the credit card information of customers…
IA: Data breach found in city of Ames’ parking ticket payment system. It’s Click2Gov, again.
The Ames Tribune reports on yet another breach report involving Click2Gov (by CentralSquare Technologies): A data breach to the city’s parking ticket payment system may have affected 4,600 customers who paid a city-issued ticket on the city’s online payment system between Aug. 10 and Nov. 19, city officials said Friday in a news release. […]…