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…
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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,…
From ransomware to attacks on vendors, school districts face multiple threats
Shirley Bilye provides an update on a ransomware attack affecting an Illinois school district: Meredosia-Chambersburg school district has been able to get most of its computer system back online after a cyberattack tried to hijack the network. Earlier this month, staff members started having problems using their computers. The screens eventually went black and the…
Illuminate Education Defeats Data Breach Lawsuit for Second Time
Christopher Brown reports: Illuminate Education Inc. defeated for the second time a proposed class action alleging it failed to protect the personal information of more than 3 million elementary and high school students, which was exposed in a December 2021 data breach. The plaintiffs failed to show that they had suffered concrete harm from the breach…