Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Wyoming has posted a data security incident notice on its website. According to the notice, on or about April 5, 2019, CRMC became aware of suspicious activity related to certain employee payroll accounts and launched an investigation. They ultimately determined that some CRMC employee accounts were accessed without authorization between…
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Police Procedural: How South Carolina Arrest Records Were Exposed
UpGuard reports: The UpGuard Research team can now disclose that a cloud storage bucket containing personally identifiable information (PII) for thousands of people in the South Carolina justice system has been secured. An employee of Spartan Technology, a South Carolina tech company, had uploaded a collection of backups to the AWS S3 storage service. The data collection…
Months-Long Privacy Breach Involving Meal Tray Tickets at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital: DPH
Bay City News reports: The San Francisco Department of Public Health announced Tuesday a privacy breach at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital involving patients’ meal tray tickets that were improperly disposed into regular garbage bins. The tickets, which contained patients’ full names, birth month and day, bed/unit location at the hospital, diet information and menu…
Pensacola officials not sure if cyberattack related to shooting at naval air station
Tina Burnside and Eric Levenson report: The city of Pensacola, Florida, said it has experienced a cyber “incident” and has disconnected several city services until the issue can be resolved. Mayor Grover Robinson told CNN affiliate WEAR the city has been dealing with a cyberattack since late Friday. Read more on CNN. h/t, @VERISDB
Banner Health agrees to $6 million settlement over 2016 breach
Jessica Kim Cohen reports an update on a 2016 breach covered on this site: Banner Health has agreed to pay up to $6 million to victims of a massive data breach the Arizona health system experienced in 2016, according to court documents filed last week. The plaintiffs in the case filed the motion for preliminary…
Metro Atlanta city experiences data breach, FBI investigating
Jason Braverman reports: The City of Newnan recently experienced a data breach where an “unauthorized individual” was in possession of electronic files containing data maintained by the city, including personal information, the city told 11Alive. On Sept. 4, the city learned of the data breach regarding files that contained vehicle accident report data from approximately…