Liisa M. Thomas and Kathryn Smith of Sheppard Mullin write: As 2024 came to a close, New York Gov. Hochul signed two bills (A8872A and S2376B) amending New York’s data breach law. The modifications change both what constitutes personal information under the law, as well as modifying notification timing. The notice modification is now in effect; the…
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ConnectOnCall breach exposes health data of over 910,000 patients
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Healthcare software as a service (SaaS) company Phreesia is notifying over 910,000 people that their personal and health data was exposed in a May breach of its subsidiary ConnectOnCall, acquired in October 2023. ConnectOnCall is a telehealth platform and after-hours on-call answering service with automated patient call tracking for healthcare providers. “On…
CISA orders federal agencies to secure Microsoft cloud systems after ‘recent’ intrusions
Jonathan Greig reports: Federal civilian agencies were ordered to secure their Microsoft cloud systems after several recent cyber incidents. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a binding directive on Tuesday giving federal agencies a series of deadlines to identify cloud systems, implement assessment tools and abide by the agency’s Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) secure…
Securities and Exchange Commission Settles Charges Against Flagstar for Misleading Investors About Citrix Data Breach
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING File No. 3-22360 December 16, 2024 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed settled charges against Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. (now known as “Flagstar Financial, Inc.”), for making materially misleading statements regarding a cybersecurity attack on Flagstar’s network in late 2021 (the “Citrix Breach”). The SEC’s order finds that Flagstar negligently made materially misleading…
Granite School District breach worse than the district has revealed — former employee (1)
Some former employees of Granite School District in Utah are reporting frustration and anger with the district’s incident response to an attack by the Rhysida group. One has written up what he found when he examined the publicly leaked data. On September 20, 2024, Granite became aware of suspicious activity on its network. An investigation…
Nebraska AG becomes first state to sue Change Healthcare over massive data breach
Aaron Sanderford reports: Nebraska on Monday became the first state to sue Tennessee-based Change Healthcare over the company’s massive data breach that cost at least 575,000 Nebraskans their personal information and medical records. … The breach was blamed on a low-level employee who had his or her login credentials hacked. Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers…