Christina Davis reports on a class action suit filed against Delta Airlines where the main complaint appears to be that customers were first notified of the hack until six months after it occurred. […] According to the Delta class action lawsuit, the third party running the online chat room knew of the data breach for…
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Phoenix Terros Health Notifies 1,600 Patients of Phishing Attack
Bridget Dowd reports: Terros Health reported a major data breach Friday, affecting about 1,600 patients. The Phoenix-based integrated care company helps patients with mental illness and addiction. The organization was notified in April that an unauthorized third party had gained access to an email account through a phishing scam. Karen Hoffman Tepper, chief operating officer, said…
New York State suspends ex-URMC nurse who shared patient info with her new employer
Patti Singer reports: A nurse practitioner who three years ago took a list of patients when she left employment at the University of Rochester Medical Center and brought the names to her new employer has been suspended from practice, according to the New York State Education Department Office of the Professions. Martha C. Smith-Lightfoot was…
California man convicted of hacking Embarcadero Media in 2015
SAN JOSE – A federal jury returned a verdict yesterday against Ross Colby, finding him guilty of three counts of computer intrusion, one count of attempting to damage a protected computer, and one count of intentionally damaging a protected computer, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois notifies members after vendor alerts them to a fraudulent provider
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBS) uses a vendor, Dane Street, to provide peer to peer reviews of insurance claims that are denied. On May 10, Dane Street notified BCBS that on April 9, law enforcement had notified them that a doctor who had been providing peer to peer reviews for them was not…
Facebook bug set 14 million users’ sharing settings to public
Heather Kelly reports: For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday. The bug, which affected those users from May 18 to May 22, occurred while Facebook was testing a new feature….