Catalin Cimpanu has a good write-up about the multistate lawsuit against Medical Informatics that I noted earlier this week: Attorneys general from twelve US states have joined together to file the first-ever joint cross-state HIPAA lawsuit against a healthcare provider that got hacked in the summer of 2015. The lawsuit, filed in an Indiana court…
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SD Calif. Dismisses Data Security Breach Class Action Against Mortgage Company
Christopher P. Hahn. writes: The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California recently dismissed a consumer’s putative class action lawsuit against a mortgage lending and servicing company for purported damages sustained as a result of a security breach wherein his personal information was compromised, and the hackers attempted to open credit cards in…
Florida contractor physicians’ group settles HHS claims after they failed to have a BA agreement in place with a vendor who had a breach
There is a follow-up to a 2014 breach reported on this site at the time. But it turns out there was an interesting twist to this case that HHS followed up. Here is their press release: Advanced Care Hospitalists PL (ACH) has agreed to pay $500,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the…
California-based professional employer organization hacked by TheDarkOverlord; thousands of employees’ files stolen
TheDarkOverlord (TDO) has been busy, it seems. In the past month or so, the hackers – who have seemingly managed to continue to evade capture by law enforcement – have revealed a number of hacks never previously disclosed by them. Earlier today, DataBreaches.net reported on TDO’s hack of Caribbean Island Properties. But at the same…
Emails of top House GOP officials stolen in major 2018 hack
Alex Isenstadt and John Bresnahan report: The House GOP campaign arm suffered a major hack during the 2018 election, exposing thousands of sensitive emails to an outside intruder, according to three senior party officials. The email accounts of four senior aides at the National Republican Congressional Committee were surveilled for several months, the party officials…
Medical Informatics sued by multiple states over 2015 breach
A 2015 hack of Medical Informatics stayed in the headlines for quite a while because it compromised the data, including health information, of 3.9 million people. In addition to suits filed by consumers, state attorneys general have also sued the business associate, as Dave Gong reports: Fort Wayne-based Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. failed to secure…