Erin Schilling reports: Some taxpayers are learning that their data was leaked in the widespread breach by a former IRS contractor that led to the release of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Four tax lawyers said they have seen letters from the IRS that went to clients this week and last week notifying them…
Category: Subcontractor
Sg: App managing student devices in 127 schools hacked; names and e-mail addresses leaked: MOE
Lok Jian Wen reports: The names and e-mail addresses of parents and teachers of 127 primary and secondary schools were leaked after a mobile platform on students’ personal learning devices was hacked, said the Ministry of Education (MOE) on April 19. The Mobile Guardian app, which is installed on personal learning devices including Chromebook laptops…
Proposed CorrectCare Breach Settlement Rejected Over Equitable Treatment
Christopher Brown reports: A proposed $6.49 million settlement of a lawsuit alleging that CorrectCare Integrated Health LLC failed to protect the personal information of 647,000 people in a January 2022 data breach was rejected by a federal court. Plaintiffs Virginia Hiley, Christopher Knight, Kyle Marks, and Marlena Yates failed to show in their motion for settlement approval…
What Austin ISD said led to student information being released to non-guardians
Johann Castro reports: Some Austin ISD students mistakenly had their records released to people who weren’t their parents or legal guardians. According to a report from KVUE’s media partners at the Austin American-Statesman, documents revealed that a special education database vendor mistakenly released the private information for about 160 Austin students in December. The report…
Change Healthcare responding to cyberattack; few details known at this point
Early yesterday, Change Healthcare reported that they were experiencing enterprise-wide connectivity issues. They didn’t call it a cyberattack at that point, but by mid-day, their status reports were indicating that they were experiencing “a network interruption related to a cyber security issue.” A few hours later, they added a statement, “Once we became aware of…
Hack at Services Firm Hits 2.4 Million Eye Doctor Patients
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: Medical Management Resource Group, which does business as American Vision Partners, works with – and “shares” a management system, IT and infrastructure with – 12 practices, according to its website. The incident involved the hack of a network server and affected more than 2.35 million individuals, the company said in a…