Heather Crawford reports that First Coast News has been investigating papers found on the side of the road in St. Johns County. The papers, that included a prescription bag with prescription records and a nursing home’s information, appeared to come from a luxury senior living community in Jacksonville. “The pharmacy name on everything is Guardian…
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Sequoia Capital Suffers Data Breach
Dark Reading reports: Sequoia Capital last week warned investors that some of their personal and sensitive information may have been exposed in a recent data breach of the firm. According to reports, Sequoia said the data may have been accessed by a third party in the breach, which occurred as a result of a successful phishing attack on an employee via email….
Follow-up: Data from the Toledo Public Schools attack by Maze reportedly being misused
In September, DataBreaches.net reported that Maze threat actors claimed to have attacked an Ohio public school district, but the district was not responding to inquiries from this site about the claims. One month later, this site named the district as Toledo Public Schools and reported that while Maze had dumped files with student and employee…
Watermark takes action after data security breach potentially affects people in 10 states
Kimberly Bonvissuto reports: Tucson, AZ-based Watermark Retirement Communities is the latest victim of a data security breach, in this case one that may have compromised the personal information of 208 residents and others. The company sent out a notice on Wednesday that it became aware of a “cyber intrusion” in September. The senior living operator…
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certification giant hit by ransomware
Lawrence Abrams reports: UL LLC, better known as Underwriters Laboratories, has suffered a ransomware attack that encrypted its servers and caused them to shut down systems while they recover. […] BleepingComputer has learned that UL suffered a ransomware attack last weekend that encrypted devices in their data center. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Kroger reports Accellion data breach affecting pharmacy records, associate HR data
Updated March 9: This incident subsequently appeared on HHS’s public breach tool as having been reported to HHS on February 19 and impacting 368,100 patients. Brian Planalp reports: Kroger is informing some customers and associates that a third-party software company it uses for data services recently suffered a data breach. Kroger’s own IT systems were not…