The Senate Education Committee approved the Student Data Privacy and Protection Act, according to the measure’s sponsor Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York). Senate Bill 565 modernizes Pennsylvania law to accommodate student information being stored online, as well as students learning and attending school online. As is currently stands, student-related data is being generated, collected, and stored within…
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Houston ISD investigating how students’ personal documents ended up on the street
Daniela Hurtado reports: Several students’ records were found scattered on the road and sidewalks outside an elementary school in southwest Houston on Tuesday. Houston ISD is now working to learn how paperwork with personal information like student addresses ended up there. Documents like report cards, folders of completed field trip forms, parent phone numbers, and…
Ascension Seton reports data breach of websites
Olivia Aldridge reports: The Austin hospital system Ascension Seton experienced a data breach of two websites earlier this year, potentially exposing the personal information of certain users. Ascension Seton issued a statement Tuesday saying its legacy websites — Seton.net and DellChildrens.net — were breached on March 1 and 2. The hospital system said it has…
HHS OCR settles charges against Manasa Health Center for disclosing PHI in response to a negative online review
New Jersey psychiatry practice pays $30,000 to settle complaint about impermissible disclosure of protected health information by disclosing this information in online review Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announces a settlement with Manasa Health Center, LLC, a health care provider in New Jersey that provides…
South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources discloses ransomware attack
South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources has disclosed that they were hit with a ransomware attack on April 3. They do not indicate what group attacked them, or what any ransom demand may have been, and DataBreaches has not seen this incident on any leak site to date. According to their notification, “The investigation remains ongoing,…
Canopy Children’s Solutions continues to investigate ransomware attack in April
In early May, a new group of threat actors known as Nokoyawa added Canopy Children’s Solutions in Mississippi to their leak site. On June 2, Mississippi Children’s Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children’s Home Services, Inc., d.b.a. Canopy Children’s Solutions (“Canopy”) a press release acknowledging that on April 4, they experienced an attack that…