DataBreaches.net has found a second HIPAA-covered entity that has revealed that it was affected by the Accellion attack by CLOP threat actors. On February 25, Trillium Community Health Plan in Oregon disclosed that they had been notified by Accellion on January 25 of the cyberattack that impacted dozens of Accellion’s clients. In Trillium’s case, the…
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Someone Hacked the Website of the Attorney Representing One of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Accusers
Colin Kalmbacher reports: The website for attorney Debra Katz, of the law firm of Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP, was hacked and taken offline early Saturday morning. Katz currently represents former political aide Charlotte Bennett in the investigation into alleged sexual harassment by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.). The splash page for kmblegal.com simply contained the phrase “AGENT-TEST” for hours before the firm was able…
NYDFS Penalizes Mortgage Company For Not Disclosing 2019 Breach
Kim Phan of Ballard Spahr writes: On March 3rd, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) announced a settlement with Residential Mortgage Services, Inc. (“RMS”) to resolve allegations that RMS violated the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation relating to a 2019 cyber breach. In July 2020, NYDFS conducted an examination of RMS as a licensed mortgage…
American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association hack impacted more than 161,000
The American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association, a non-profit organization in Virginia that provides insurance and benefits services to the military community, is notifying 161,621 individuals of a hacking incident. On January 29, AAFMAA became aware of suspicious activity on its system. Their investigation revealed that an unauthorized party had first gained access to certain…
Some UPMC St. Margaret patients’ info shared with unauthorized organization by now-former employee
Paul J. Gough reports that an employee of UPMC St. Margaret was fired after they sent a record to an unidentified outside organization that contained patient information. A March 5th statement on UPMC’s web site reveals that on August 8, 2020, UPMC first became aware of the inappropriate disclosure of a medication administration report to an…
SC: Sandhills Medical Foundation notifies patients of vendor breach
Updated 3/6/2021: Sandhills reported this incident to Maine as impacting 39,602 patients, total. Original Post: Sandhills Medical Foundation has posted a notice of a data security incident on their web site, reproduced below. Based on the dates and description, it appears that this is the Netgain Technology LLC data breach that has previously been noted…