Two more public school districts have announced they were hit by ransomware. Visalia Unified School District in California announced on Tuesday that the ransomware had impacted the operation of the district’s IT systems. YourCentralValley.com reported: The district said many IT systems are offline until further notice and that local and federal law enforcement have been…
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Health Plan of San Joaquin notifying more than 420,000 of email hack last year
On or about October 12, Health Plan of San Joaquin (HPSJ) learned of unusual activity affecting its email system. On October 23, 2020, the investigation determined that an unknown person(s) had accessed a number of HPSJ employee email accounts between September 26, 2020 and October 12, 2020. Yesterday, HPSJ sent out notifications and notified the…
Former Wenatchee Valley Medical Group physician charged with Confluence Health computer intrusion
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…
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…