Jessica Guynn reports on the impact of breaches: Mental health professionals say data breaches and other cyber crimes are increasingly taking a heavy psychological toll on the millions of Americans whose personal information is plundered by fraudsters. It’s not just the nightmarish process of clearing your name and credit history or the struggle to get…
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PIH sued after notifying patients of phishing attack that could have exposed their protected health information
On January 24, I posted a breach notification from PIH Health with a commentary on how long it took from the time of the phishing attack to notification of almost 200,000 potentially affected patients. There was nothing in their notification, however, that suggested that patients had actually had their protected health information stolen or misused….
Endeavor Energy Resources notifies employees and dependents after employee fell prey to phishing attack
Statement from Endeavor Energy Resources (via MRT): “Endeavor Energy Resources, L.P. (“Endeavor”), an oil and gas exploration and production company, discovered on Jan. 14 that earlier that day an unauthorized party, through a phishing scam, possibly gained access to unsecured protected health information stored in the corporate, Office 365 account of an Endeavor employee. After…
Personal health information of nearly 2,900 Queen’s patients sent to wrong email address
The Star Advertiser reports: An employee sent an email containing personal health information for 2,852 patients of The Queen’s Medical Center and Queen’s North Hawaii Community Hospital to the wrong address on Feb. 3, Queen’s officials announced today. No Social Security numbers or financial account information was included, so patients’ financial security is not at…
City of Wayne, Nebraska hit by ransomware attack
NCN reports: A northeast Nebraska city is investigating an apparent hack into their systems. The City of Wayne announced Wednesday that they were the victims of a ransomware attack. In a Facebook post, city officials said all of their internet-based communications are down. Read more on 1011Now.com
Update: How many users were affected by the DISA breach?
Andrew Eversden has an update on a breach previously noted on this site: A breach of a system hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Department of Defense’s primary IT support agency, affected “approximately 200,000” users after a malicious actor may have gained access to names and Social Security numbers, according to a Pentagon…