Jonah Meadows reports: Evanston Township High School officials got scammed out of more than $48,000 during a monthslong data breach that also exposed the personal information of more than 1,100 Illinois residents, Patch has learned. The fraudulent payment was reported to Evanston police, and the data breach was disclosed to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office,…
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Ransomware attack shuts down Lewis & Clark Community College
Russell Kinsaul reports: Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey closed all their campuses this week and cancelled all extra-curricular activities, including sports. The move was made after the director of information technology noticed suspicious activity last Tuesday and shut down the school’s computer network on Wednesday. According to college president, Ken Trzaska, hackers got…
OR: One Community Health reports April cyberattack
On September 13, DataBreaches.net added an entry to the monthly worksheet this site maintains for annual data analyses. The entry was for “One Community Health” in Oregon, but it was not the covered entity that announced the breach. DataBreaches.net learned about the breach from Pysa threat actors who had added the covered entity to their…
Class Certification Order Lifted in Data Breach Lawsuit Against West Virginia University Health System
HIPAA Journal reports: A class action lawsuit filed against West Virginia University Health System over a breach of the protected health information of 7,445 patients has had the class certification order lifted by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. The lawsuit is related to an insider data breach that occurred in 2016. Between…
Huntington Hospital discloses insider criminal breach after law enforcement lifts delay on notice
Huntington Hospital in New York has disclosed an insider-wrongdoing incident that occurred between October 2018 and February 2019. Although they determined in February, 2019 that the now-former employee was engaging in unauthorized access to patient records, and suspended the employee (and eventually terminated the employment), they were asked to delay notification to those impacted until…
At least 3 Quad-Cities municipalities have fallen victim to cyber attacks
Sarah Watson reports: … In the Quad-Cities, at least three local governments paid out more than $100,000 to scammers. In all three cases, the criminals emailed local government officials pretending to be legitimate vendors the cities worked with. Rock Island County paid $115,000. LeClaire wired more than $222,000 in a similar case. Moline paid roughly…