So Harvest Bible Chapel d/b/a Walk in the Word Ministries notified donors of a vendor breach that they learned about on May 30, 2017. We determined that the unknown individual may have accessed payment information, including name, address, telephone number, credit/debit card, or checking account information depending on the form of payment you used on our…
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Detroit Medical Center reports data breach affecting 1,500
The Detroit Medical Center announced a data breach of health information that involves about 1,500 patients seen at one of its facilities in 2015 and 2016. The health system announced today that a staffing agency contracted by the DMC notified hospital officials that one of the agency’s employees provided the information to unauthorized people who weren’t…
Ivinson Memorial Hospital notifies patients of FastHealth breach
Another FastHealth client is disclosing the vendor’s malware breach to its patients. Eve Newman reports: More than 500 Ivinson Memorial Hospital patients should receive notices in coming days that their billing and health information might have been compromised because of a security breach involving a hospital website vendor. FastHealth, which provides website services to IMH,…
How A Verizon Partner Exposed 14 Million Customer Accounts
Dan O’Sullivan reports: UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now report that a misconfigured cloud-based file repository exposed the names, addresses, account details, and account personal identification numbers (PINs) of as many as 14 million US customers of telecommunications carrier Verizon, per analysis of the average number of accounts exposed per day in the sample that…
Former MedAssist employee charged with trafficking stolen identities from Southeast Alabama Medical Center patients
WSFA reports: A woman whose job specialized in assisting medical patients has been charged with identity theft, according to the Dothan Police Department. Dothan Police say Malika Shanta Oliver, 40, is charged with trafficking stolen identities. An investigation revealed Oliver was employed by a company called MedAssist which specializes in assisting medical patients with insurance…
Some Erie County OCY cases part of statewide data breach
Kevin Flowers has more on a breach recently noted on this site: Officials with the Erie County Office of Children and Youth said that fewer than 30 Erie County children had their identities compromised as part of a recent data security breach involving a third-party vendor that affected approximately 1,800 child welfare cases statewide. The…