Christopher Brown reports: Insight Global LLC will pay up to $5,000 each to victims of an April 2021 data breach involving Covid-19 contact-tracing data to compensate them for extraordinary out-of-pocket losses, in a settlement given final approval by a federal judge. Lisa Chapman filed the proposed class action against Insight and the Pennsylvania Department of…
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NL: Software supplier Nebu ordered by court to provide more information about data breach
There is a significant update to a breach at Nebu software that may have impacted millions of Dutch people. As reported previously, Blauw took Nebu to court, seeking an injunction to require Nebu to provide more information on the breach. The hearing was yesterday, and the court issued an order. NU.nl reports (machine translation): ……
Reports continue to emerge from Community Health Systems entities affected by Fortra/GoAnywhere breach
The number of entities disclosing that they were affected by the Fortra/GoAnywhere breach continues to mount. Because a number of entities are part of CHSPSC, LLC (“CHSPSC”) DataBreaches wants to make readers aware of two notices: Community Health System’s security incident notice. and A map of CHSPSC locations so you can look at your state…
HIPAA Data Breach Costs Company Nearly $300,000 In DOJ False Claims Act Settlement
Stacy L. Cook and Iqra Mushtaq of Barnes & Thornburg LLP write: On March 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the settlement of a case involving alleged violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) as a result of cybersecurity failures and breach of HIPAA-protected health information. Obtained under the Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative, this settlement emphasizes…
Tracking the Adelanto Healthcare Ventures breach on DataBreaches.net
Yesterday, DataBreaches reported that a vendor’s breach discovered in November 2021 was first being disclosed by a number of hospitals. Rather than do separate posts as each additional hospital becomes known, you can bookmark that post, where you can scroll down and find updates as DataBreaches becomes aware of them. At the present time, we…
Nine months after ransomware attack, Atlantic Dialysis Management Services notifies patients and regulators
In August 2022, DataBreaches reported a ransomware attack on Atlantic Dialysis Management Services (ADMS) by Snatch Team. DataBreaches first learned of the breach in June 2022, when Snatch Team named ADMS on their leak site. Between then and August 16, when DataBreaches reported on the incident, ADMS ignored requests from this site for information about…