Hope started as a school in Illinois for children with disabilities, but it expanded its mission over the years. This is a notification they posted on August 3: Vision for Hope (“Hope”) recently discovered an incident that may have involved the personal information or protected health information of some of its patients or other individuals….
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Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Notifies Patients Who Were Potentially Impacted by a Former Employee’s Unauthorized Access of Electronic Medical Records
QUEENS, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital (“LIJFH”) today announced that it has notified patients who were potentially impacted by a former employee’s unauthorized access of electronic medical records. LIJFH has taken steps to address this matter and is offering credit monitoring to any patient who may have been affected. As background, on January…
Data leak affects about 3,000 NYC students and 100 employees, officials confirm
Pooja Salhotra reports: Personal information, including academic records and biographical data, of about 3,000 New York City public school students and 100 education department staff members was inadvertently shared more widely than intended, education department officials confirmed on Thursday. At least one student within the public school system managed to access a Google Drive that…
ibex Provides Notice of Data Security Incident
WASHINGTON, Aug. 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ibex today issued this announcement concerning an earlier event, disclosed by the company on October 23, 2020 in its Annual Report (Form 20-F), which may have potentially impacted the security of information relating to certain employees and their families. While ibex is unaware of any attempted or actual…
Ransomware Shuts Down Online Services in Joplin, Mo.
Debby Woodin reports: A July 7 network security incident that caused the Joplin city government’s computer system to shut down is believed to be the result of ransomware, the city said Thursday in a statement amid an ongoing investigation. An insurer has paid an unknown person $320,000 to keep any sensitive information obtained as a…
Israeli cyber company detects severe Amazon security breach
The Jersualem Post reports: A severe security breach was detected in Amazon’s e-book tablet Kindle by Israeli cybersecurity provider Check Point, the company revealed on Friday. According to the company’s Israeli cyber investigators, the security breach found allowed them to hack the tablets, gain full control and steal the e-reader users’ Amazon accounts. Read more on The…