Bowlmor AMF, the world’s largest bowling center operator, said late Friday that it had a possible data breach at 21 of its more than 300 domestic locations in 12 states between Feb. 4 and March 19. Malware was found on computers at the 21 locations, including three in Virginia – AMF Sunset Lanes on West…
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Five breaches involving health data disclosed in one day?
Breaches involving health data in 2017 are continuing where 2016 left off – there are too many of them. In addition to the breaches reported earlier today on this site involving Catholic Charities of Baltimore and Complete Wellness (also in Baltimore), we also learned about three other breaches involving health data: The Center for Mental Health in Montana…
Catholic Charities of Baltimore Notifies Clients of Potential Security Incident
Catholic Charities of Baltimore issued a press release today after an employee’s email account was hacked and personal and protected health information of the charity’s clients may have been accessed or acquired. The press release does not indicate how many people they are notifying. Nor does it indicate how the hack occurred – did the…
MD: Complete Wellness notifies 600 patients after employee misconduct results in lost PHI
On January 9, Complete Wellness, a treatment center in Baltimore for those with mental health issues or substance abuse, posted a Warning of Potential Privacy Violation on their web site. The warning described an incident in which an employee – without authorization – copied patient files to a flash drive, and the flash drive was…
CoPilot Provider Support Services notifies 220,000 of data security breach in 2015
UPDATE: As of January 24, CoPilot continues to ignore inquiries sent by this site asking for explanations of why it took so long to notify/disclose this breach. But I see a lot of commenters asking this site/me for information. I don’t have any information to share with you other than what is in the post…
St. Louis’ public library computers hacked for ransom
WTAE reports: Hackers have infected every public computer in the St. Louis Public Library system, stopping all book borrowing and cutting off internet access to those who rely on it for computers. […] According to the library, hackers demanded $35,000 in the electronic currency Bitcoin — but the library refuses to pay. Instead, it’ll wipe…