Benjamin Freed reports: A school district in Coventry, Connecticut, notified families of its students this week that students’ data may have been swept up in a breach of one of its vendors earlier this year. The breach-notification letter, dated Tuesday, stated that data belonging to the roughly 1,700 students enrolled in Coventry Public Schools may have…
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Kaiser Wins Trademark Injunction Against Patient Data Company
Isaiah Poritz reports: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. won a preliminary injunction in California federal court against medical records company SureFile Filing Systems for attempting to sell patient data using Kaiser’s trademarks. Kaiser is likely to succeed on the merits of its breach of contract and common law trademark counterclaims against SureFile, Judge Mark C. Scarsi…
Sunwing president apologizes to stranded passengers, says outage result of cyberattack
Joshua Freeman reports that a Canadian airline’s flights were disrupted after an attack on the firm that provides its check-in system: “Obviously, this is a terrible situation and one that we didn’t expect,” Sunning CEO Mark Williams told CP24 in an interview. “Certainly apologize to everyone for the inconvenience this has caused. By Tuesday, it…
Ca: Arnprior Regional Health determines Arnprior and District Family Health Team data caught up in IT system breach
The following is a somewhat confusing, and seemingly self-contradicting press release. DataBreaches.net has sent an email inquiry to ADFHT seeking clarification of what they mean by saying that although the investigation is ongoing, they have concluded that the personal health information in its electronic medical record was not compromised. What does “compromised” mean to them?…
Ph: NBI raids house of ex-Smartmatic employee tagged in ‘data breach’
There is yet another update in the investigation into a security breach involving the Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) vendor Smartmatic. As of April 1, Smartmatic had acknowledged a data leak, but said it had dealt with the problem and fired the employee involved. Now we learn that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has…
Federal Court Dismisses Data Breach Litigation
The following news item refers to litigation related to a data leak discovered by Dutch researcher Jelle Ursem that was reported in collaboration with DataBreaches.net. Shing Tse and Kristin L. Bryan of Squire Patton Boggs write: Recently, a federal court in Kansas joined a number of other courts in finding that allegations of future, speculative harm unadorned…