Yesterday, a listing appeared on a popular hacking forum offering data for sale that were reported to be from the US Department of Education (Ed.gov). According to the listing, the leaked information includes: “ID, UserID, UserName, MobileNumber, LevelID, ConsumerID, Type, FeedBack, SubjectID, Subject, Replied, Token, Completed, Date, Updated, Deleted, and Origin” DataBreaches contacted the…
Category: U.S.
IL: Morris Hospital discloses breach that Royal claimed responsibility for in May; notifies 248,943
Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers (Morris Hospital) has issued a notification concerning a cybersecurity incident they discovered on April 4. The incident affects current and former patients of Morris Hospital and current and former employees and their dependents or beneficiaries. According to their explanation, their forensic investigation determined that “just prior to the incident,” data…
Insider-Wrongdoing in the Healthcare Sector
Michelle Del Guercio writes: On June 8, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (“HC3”) published Types of Cyber Threat Actors That Threaten Healthcare. In that publication, they identify five basic types of insider threats: careless or negligent workers malicious insiders inside agents disgruntled employees third parties In 2016, when Protenus and DataBreaches first began collaborating on…
Jefferson Health warns Cherry Hill hospital patients of potential data breach
John Paul Titlow reports: Some patients at Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital are being advised to keep an eye on their credit reports due to a potential data breach. The hospital started notifying select patients this week that their private data may have been compromised after a backup hard drive went missing from a DEXA scan…
Compliance: National Credit Union Administration issues letter on cyber incident reporting notification requirements
CUNA reports: NCUA issued a Letter to Credit Unions (23-CU-07) on the cyber incident notification requirements that go into effect Sept. 1. Credit unions will be required to notify the NCUA no later than 72 hours after the credit union reasonably believes it has experienced a reportable cyber incident or has received a notification from…
NYC Finance Department Sent Every Employee Their Colleagues’ Personal Info
Yoav Gonen reports: The city Department of Finance inadvertently emailed a roster of all of its staff — containing home addresses, cell numbers and personal email addresses — to the agency’s roughly 1,800 employees in a botched test of its emergency notification system, THE CITY has learned. The snafu was accompanied by automated calls to…