Not surprisingly, Mayo Clinic is facing a lawsuit over an insider-wrongdoing (snooping) breach that was disclosed last month. Jim Spencer reports: Patients whose medical records were improperly accessed by a former Mayo Clinic employee are attempting to mount a class-action lawsuit against the health care provider for failing to protect their sensitive personal data. The…
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Alamance Skin Center reports ransomware attack
Andy Warfield reports: A Cone Health medical practice has been hit by a ransomware cyber attack. The Greensboro-based health system announced this week that on Oct. 21, Alamance Skin Center in Burlington was the victim of a phishing scam or brute force attack used to gain access to the system. Read more on BizJournals.
Club Fitness Provides Notice of Data Security Incident
A press release discloses a breach involving Club Fitness Holdings, Inc. (“Club Fitness”): On June 18, 2020, Club Fitness discovered a data security event that prevented access to data and programs on its network. Upon learning this, Club Fitness immediately began an investigation, and took action to secure and restore access to its network. Club Fitness…
Another k-12 district reports a data breach
This time, it’s Columbus City Schools in Ohio, who report that on May 1, they learned that an employee’s email account had been compromised. Their subsequent investigation resulted in them notifying an undisclosed number of people that their name and social security number had been in the employee’s email account. You can read the October…
June retrial date set for ex-CIA engineer in leak case
The Associated Press reports: The retrial of a former CIA software engineer charged with leaking secrets to WikiLeaks in an espionage case will begin June 7, a judge said Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty set the date for Joshua Schulte over the objections of a defense lawyer who said it would be impossible…
A massive hacking network that Microsoft and the US military tried to stop last month is already back — and it could be a bad sign for Election Day
Aaron Holmes reports: Last month, Microsoft announced it had won a major victory in the fight against cybercrime. The company said in mid-October that it had thwarted Trickbot — a stubborn malware network that’s been used to infect critical computer systems, often shutting them down for ransom. Experts were relieved by the announcement; Trickbot and other ransomware…