In the past few days, eight even more entities have revealed that their patients were impacted by the American Medical Collection Agency (Retrieval Masters) data breach that results in AMCA filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. You can find the names of the newest entities and the numbers affected in this post. Prior to this…
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GA: Henry County networks still offline five days after malware attack
Leon Stafford reports: Henry County’s computer system remained down early Monday, five days after malware is suspected to have been planted in the south metro community’s network. Websites for various departments such as state court, tax assessor and board of commissioners continued Monday to be inaccessible. Public safety such as police and fire were not…
Equifax Reaches $1.4 Billion Data Breach Settlement in Consumer Class Action; Also Agrees to Pay $575 Million as Part of Settlement with FTC, CFPB, and States Related to 2017 Data Breach
R. Robin McDonald reports: Equifax has agreed to pay at least $1.4 billion to settle multidistrict litigation brought on behalf of 147 million consumers, and pay millions more to resolve civil complaints brought by the federal government and multiple state attorneys general over its massive 2017 data breach. Monday’s notice of the proposed settlement, detailed in…
PA: Ransomware Attack Hits Local Libraries
Henry Ibinson reports: The Butler County Federated Library System continues to work on their online system following a ransomware attack that occurred last week. According to the Butler Area Public Library’s Facebook page, several of the county’s libraries began to experience technical difficulties last Wednesday (July 17th). Read more on Butler Radio.
South Texas Dermatopathology and Laboratory of Dermatopathology ADX Notify Their Patients of AMCA Breach (Update4)
Update 1: And now add Seacoast Pathology, (9,300 affected) to the 20,000 described in the original post below, and the approximately 21 million disclosed last month. Update 2 (July 21): And now add American Esoteric Laboratories (541,900), CBLPath, Inc. (148,900), and Natera (unspecified number) to the list and tally. Update 3 (July 22): And now…
Equifax to Pay Around $700 Million to Resolve Data-Breach Probes
AnnaMaria Andriotis reports: Equifax is nearing a deal to settle a slew of state and federal investigations into a 2017 data breach that exposed nearly 150 million Americans’ Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information. Under the agreement, the credit-reporting firm would pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission, the…