Malea Martin reports: A data breach at Atascadero State Hospital appears to be more severe than state officials initially thought, as the investigation into what happened remains ongoing. On March 18, the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) announced that an employee with access to Atascadero State Hospital data servers improperly obtained more than 1,400 patient and former patient names,…
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Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog checking whether city residents exposed in massive LinkedIn data leak
The 500m Facebook leak is not the only 500m leak in the news this past week. There’s also a leak allegedly involving LinkedIn, and now regulators are also looking into that one, too. Danny Mok reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog was seeking clarifications on Wednesday night from career networking site LinkedIn over residents’ possible exposure…
Ransomware attack forces Haverhill Schools to cancel classes
Erin Tiernan reports: At a time when a shift to remote learning has all but made snow days obsolete, Haverhill Public Schools students will be getting one in April after a ransomware attack forced administrators to cancel school on Thursday. The Haverhill Public School District said its IT department noticed early Wednesday morning that something…
CA: Servers at El Monte City Hall being replaced; investigation of ‘unauthorized access’ continues
Tim Haddock reports: El Monte officials were working to replace City Hall computer servers Tuesday, April 6, in response to an “unauthorized access” to its system that caused the cancellation of Tuesday’s City Council meeting and has left the city without email access. Mayor Jessica Ancona said she expected the email system, which the city…
Administrative Advantage notifies patients of Remedy Medical Group after email hack
Remedy Medical Group is a pain management specialty practice in California. Their web site indicates that they are consultants to some professional sports teams in their area. Did a breach involving some of their patients’ data also impact any prominent athletes who might receive extortion demands? At this point, there is no indication of any…
UPDATE: Trillium Health IT specialist pleads guilty to stealing personal info from colleagues’ computers
Some days, I see a name in my news feed and think, “Oh, I know about that breach already.” But then I doublecheck, only to learn that no, this was not the breach I had covered a week or so ago, but yet another breach involving the same name or a similar name. Such is…