As many people left for the weekend or were thinking about holiday shopping, two more HIPAA-covered entities disclosed breaches involving protected health information (PHI): optometry services provider Simon Eye Management and specialty pharmacy services provider BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Services, LLC. Neither disclosure, described below, reported any malware or ransomware component to their breaches. By the…
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T-Mobile litigation over major data breach to proceed in Missouri
Sara Merken reports the latest update in litigation stemming from the T-Mobile breach disclosed in August that impacted 53 million consumers: The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has transferred a batch of lawsuits against T-Mobile US Inc over its recently disclosed data breach to a Kansas City, Missouri federal court. The panel in a Friday order centralized…
Maryland health department says there’s no evidence of data lost after cyberattack; website is back online
Christine Condon and Hallie Miller report: The Maryland Department of Health said Monday that there was “no evidence” any of its data had been compromised after a cyberattack forced the agency to take its website offline over the weekend. “There is no evidence at this time that any data have been compromised,” department spokesman Andy…
Appellate Court Partially Revives Medical Data Breach Class Action
Cheryl Miller reports the latest development on litigation stemming from a 2014 data breach at Sutherland Healthcare Solutions. If that incident doesn’t ring a bell for you, it was covered a number of times on this site back in 2014 and you can find coverage linked from here. A state appellate panel on Monday partially…
Florida teen and her mother accused of hacking homecoming queen election refuse plea deal, claiming they have been framed
In March 2021, news broke about a Florida teenager and her mother allegedly hacking votes to make her the high school homecoming queen. In May, it was announced that Emily Grover, who was 17 at the time of the alleged hacking, would be charged as an adult. Both she and her mother, Laura Rose Carroll,…
Utility biz Delta-Montrose Electric Association loses billing capability and two decades of records after cyber attack
Gareth Corfield reports: A US utility company based in Colorado was hit by a ransomware attack in November that wiped out two decades’ worth of records and knocked out billing systems that won’t be restored until next week at the earliest. The attack was detailed by the Deltca-Montrose Electric Association (DMEA) in a post on…