Be forewarned: the news story misspells”breach” as “breech.” I couldn’t bring myself to use their headline so fixed that, but am leaving this: Contra Costa County officials have begun sending out letters this week to potential victims of the “unauthorized access to certain county employee email accounts” in a computer breech between July to August…
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Big Coral Gables mortgage servicer hit by data breach, exposing clients’ personal information
Andres Viglucci reports: One of the country’s largest mortgage servicers, a company based in Coral Gables, has reported what appears to be a significant data breach to customers three months after discovering it, prompting two separate federal lawsuits. In a letter to customers dated March 18, Lakeview Loan Servicing said it had uncovered “a security…
Newman Regional Health notifies 52,224 patients after long-running breach of employee email accounts
Newman Regional Health (NRH) is notifying more than 52,000 patients after an investigation revealed unauthorized access to a limited number of their employee e-mail accounts between January 26, 2021 and November 23, 2021. NRH is not a large hospital. According to their site, the Kansas hospital is a not-for-profit 25-bed critical access hospital, owned by…
Growing Number of Contra Costa Community College District Email Accounts Compromised By Phishing Attack
Takeshi Kawata reports: Over the past month, Contra Costa Community College District (4CD) students and faculty have been inundated with phishing emails from compromised student and employee accounts, according to the district. The vast majority of phishing emails contain links to forms that request individuals’ personal information. The recent outbreak of scam emails is the…
RIPTA says it paid hackers $170K in ransom money after massive data breach
ABC6 reports: The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority said Thursday it paid hackers $170,000 in ransom money after a massive data breach in August. The hack exposed the names, birth dates, and social security numbers of thousands of state employees, some of which didn’t even work for the agency. Read more at ABC6. The incident, which affected 22,000…
SuperCare Health Sued After Data Breach
The gap from the disclosure of a data breach to the filing of a potential class-action lawsuit is often a matter of weeks (or less), although a lot of lawsuits are dismissed for lack of Article III standing (see a 2021 review of data breach litigation here). In March, in-home respiratory care provider SuperCare…