One of the breach notices that showed up in routine searches this morning was from Associated Eye Care Partners, LLC (“AEC”). The first sentence of the notification letter was: We are contacting you to inform you of a data incident experienced by a third-party vendor for Associated Eye Care Partners, LLC (“AEC”). My mind…
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More details emerge on Professional Finance Company ransomware incident, but questions remain
A ransomware attack on Professional Finance Company (PFC) has some of us who track breaches in the healthcare sector wondering how large this breach will be. The last time we saw a big breach involving a collection agency was in 2019. The American Medical Collection Agency filed for bankruptcy pretty quickly and the total number…
$63 Million OPM Data Breach Settlement Proposed
From the official settlement website at https://www.opmdatabreach.com/: OPM Data Breach Settlement In re: U.S. Office of Personnel Management Data Security Breach Litigation, No. 15-1394 (ABJ) (D.D.C.). If You Were Subject to the Data Breaches of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and Its Contractor (Peraton Risk Decision Inc.), and You Experienced an Out-of-Pocket Loss After…
Professional Finance Company, Inc. is providing breach notifications to patients of 657 covered entities
So this one could be another big one: Professional Finance Company, Inc. (“PFC”), an accounts receivable management company that provides assistance to various organizations (including healthcare providers), announced today that it is notifying individuals whose information may have been involved in a recent network security incident. On February 26, 2022, PFC detected and stopped a sophisticated…
Updating: Breach reports from Eye Care Leaders’ clients continue to add up
As June drew to a close, DataBreaches’ little notepad tabulations indicate that we already have reports from 32 entities impacted by the Eye Care Leaders breach last December. Readers may recall that ECL’s myCare Integrity platform was reportedly accessed by an unauthorized individual who deleted some of the databases before being detected. As far as…
State unemployment, jobs services down around the country after cyberattack at GSI
Kevin Collier has more on the Geographic Solutions cyberattack previously noted on DataBreaches that is impacting state job services agencies around the country: A cyberattack has hit a company that handles unemployment claims and job placement for state governments, disrupting online services across the country. The departments of labor and related agencies have been affected…