A message from Chuck Hays, CEO, MaineGeneral Health December 8, 2015 Dear Valued Community Member: MaineGeneral Health and its subsidiaries (MaineGeneral Medical Center, MaineGeneral Rehabilitation and Long Term Care, MaineGeneral Retirement Community and MaineGeneral Community Care) have learned it has had a cyber attack on its computer network. On November 13, 2015, MaineGeneral was notified…
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Final notices going out this week to the 21 million people whose data was stolen in the OPM breach
Eric Yoder reports: The last of the notices are set to go out this week to the more than 21 million people whose personal information was stolen in a cyber breach of government security clearance files, with about 1.5 million of those having signed up so far for identity and credit monitoring services. Read more…
MT: Hellgate High Data Breach Reveals Confidential Student Information
Jon King reports: Missoula County Public School District one is investigating why a bunch of private, confidential information about Hellgate students and one school staffer were sent to parents of Hellgate High School football players last Friday. The information included very sensitive details, including which students at school were failing classes, which students were seeking…
U. Colorado Health Notifies 827 Patients That Employee Snooped in Their Records
From their public notice: UCHealth in northern Colorado is notifying approximately 800 patients that an employee inappropriately accessed their electronic medical record information. Letters to these patients have already been mailed, and affected patients will receive the letters over the coming days. The privacy and confidentiality of patients’ medical record information is a priority, and…
FL: Jury acquits former Osceola County deputy in ID theft, tax fraud case
Following up on a report from September 2014, because while some of those indicted were convicted, one was acquitted and it’s only fair to report that in light of prior damage to his reputation. Rene Stutzman reports: A federal jury has acquitted a former NFL wide receiver who later worked as an Osceola County deputy, on charges he was…
Tunecore Has Been Hacked, Sensitive Data Revealed, All User Passwords Invalidated
Bruce Houghton reports: Tunecore CEO Scott Ackerman sent an email to all users around midnight on Friday night that their accounts had been hacked three weeks earlier on November 17th. “We recently discovered suspicious activity on TuneCore’s servers in November,” he wrote, “and that on November 17th an individual illegally collected information from our servers.” The data stored…