Jefferson Robbins reports: A Wenatchee physician faces charges of domestic violence and felony counts including witness tampering and computer trespass, after allegedly abusing his spouse and unlawfully using Confluence Health computer systems to access her private medical information. Dr. Tyler Howard Buckley, 37, was summoned to Chelan County Superior Court Tuesday on a charge of…
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Updating: CaptureRx incident impacted more than 2.4 million. List of Entities.
Update as of July 13, 2021: The total number impacted has been updated by NEC Networks to 2,420,141. For the past two months, DataBreaches.net has been tracking reports involving NEC Networks, LLC d/b/a CaptureRx. CaptureRx is a specialty pharmacy benefits manager whose services include prescription claims processing, patient assistance program administration, and public health service…
NY: Filters Fast Settles Charges Stemming from Failure to Patch Critical Vulnerability Exploited in 2019 Data Breach
In 2019, Filters Fast experienced a data breach when a threat actor exploited a plugin vulnerability in vBulletin. Using SQL injection, the attacker was able to obtain consumers’ cardholder names, billing addresses, expiration dates, validation codes, and primary account numbers for purchases made between June, 2019 and July, 2020. Filters Fast did not detect any…
Judge lets novel claim stand in UHS patient data breach lawsuit
Brendan Pierson reports: A federal judge has narrowed a lawsuit brought by patients against hospital operator Universal Health Services Inc over a data breach last year, finding that merely having their data exposed did not give patients standing to sue but that one plaintiff could go forward with a claim that he was harmed because…
Trailer maker Utility targeted in “cyber event”
Nate Tabak reports: Utility Trailer Manufacturing, one of the largest U.S. producers of trailers for the trucking industry, was targeted in an apparent ransomware attack that exposed personal information of numerous employees. The California-based company told FreightWaves that it had “suffered a cyber event” that disrupted some systems temporarily. The company disclosed the incident after…
Student health insurance carrier Guard.me suffers a data breach
Lawrence Abrams reports: Student health insurance carrier guard.me has taken their website offline after a vulnerability allowed a threat actor to access policyholders’ personal information. guard.me is one of the world’s largest insurance carriers specializing in providing health insurance to students while traveling or studying abroad in another country. Read more on BleepingComputer.