Since DataBreaches first reported that data from St. Rose Hospital had appeared on a popular hacking forum and appeared to be linked to the BianLian ransomware group, there have been some additional developments: St. Rose Notified the California Attorney General’s Office The notification, submitted to California on January 12, states that Hayward Sisters Hospital d/b/a…
Category: U.S.
T-Mobile discloses yet another data breach; this one hits 37 million
It seems like litigation from one T-Mobile data breach is barely settled when we are reading about yet another T-Mobile breach. AP reports the carrier disclosed that an unidentified threat actor breached its network in late November and stole data on 37 million customers. The data stolen included addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth….
ICE releases thousands of immigrants affected by data breach
Hamed Aleaziz reports: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have released nearly 3,000 immigrants whose personal information, including birth dates and detention locations, was inadvertently posted on the internet by the U.S. government, according to government officials. Officials accidentally posted the names, birth dates, nationalities and detention locations of more than 6,000 immigrants who claimed to…
34,942 PayPal users notified of data security incident in December
PayPal has sent breach notifications to 34,942 users this week. Their notification reads, in part: On December 20, 2022, we confirmed that unauthorized parties were able to access your PayPal customer account using your login credentials. We have no information suggesting that any of your personal information was misused as a result of this incident,…
Mailchimp says it was hacked — again
Zack Whittaker reports: Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers’ data was exposed. It’s the second time the company was hacked in the past six months. Worse, this breach appears to be almost identical to a previous incident. The Intuit-owned company said in an unattributed blog post that its security team detected an intruder…
MN: Mayo Clinic settles another lawsuit stemming from insider-wrongdoing
Andy Brownell reports: The Mayo Clinic has apparently settled another lawsuit stemming from a data breach by a former Mayo Clinic employee. The lawsuit was filed in November 2020 by Olga Ryabchuk and sought class-action status on behalf of the more than 1600 Mayo Clinic patients who had their medical records improperly accessed. The case was officially…