Coastal Medical Group, Old Bridge, is notifying patients of a data security incident that involved the patients’ health information. On April 21, the practice discovered that certain of its computer systems were being affected by a data security event that the practice believes began on March 25, 2021, according to a prepared statement. After discovering…
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San Juan Regional Medical Center notifies 68,792 patients of cybersecurity breach
On June 4, 2021, San Juan Regional Medical Center (“SJRMC”) in New Mexico posted a breach notice on their web site. The notice said that SJRMC had identified unauthorized access to their network on September 8, 2020. Their subsequent investigation revealed that the threat actor removed files from the server on September 7-8, 2020. Following…
GA: Savannah hospital system experiences outage after ransomware attack
Molly Curley, Alex Bozarjian The St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C) hospital system in Savannah was the victim of a ransomware attack Thursday morning. WSAV spoke with a patient who says all computers went down around 4 a.m., and nurses have been forced to keep track of medications with a pen and paper. Read more on WAVY.
Reproductive Biology Associates and My Egg Bank notify 38,538 patients of ransomware incident
Reproductive Biology Associates and its affiliate My Egg Bank North America issued a breach notification involving a ransomware incident that impacted the Atlanta entities. According to the notification submitted to Maine’s Attorney General’s Office and similar statements posted on their web sites, the entities first became aware of a potential data incident on April 16,…
Lightfoot, Franklin & White notifies clients of ransomware incident
Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC is a law firm based in Birmingham, Alabama that handles commercial litigation, product liability, professional liability, white-collar criminal, and other legal matters. In a copy of a notification obtained by DataBreaches.net, they forthrightly informed affected clients that there had been a ransomware incident: On April 17, 2021, we learned of…
Wegmans Notifies Customers Of Database Security Breach
Amy Hogan reports: Wegmans is notifying its customers of a security breach of a database that stores customer information. A statement posted to the grocery chain’s website explains that the cloud database was meant for internal use only, but, due to a “configuration problem,” was left open to potential outside access. Read more on Fox40.