Indiana Attorney General Rokita led a coalition of 33 attorneys general in a multi-state investigation and litigation against health care clearinghouse Imnediata stemming from a breach disclosed in 2019. Background In January 2019, HHS OCR alerted Inmediata that protected health information (PHI) maintained by Inmediata was available online and had been indexed by search engines….
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KwikTrip all but says IT outage was caused by a cyberattack
Lawrence Abrams reports: Kwik Trip has released another statement on an ongoing outage, all but confirming it suffered a cyberattack that has led to IT system disruptions. Kwik Trip is a US chain of over 800 convenience stores and gas stations in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, also operating under the name Kwik Star in Illinois,…
Henry Schein Inc. discloses cyberattack
Newsday reports: Henry Schein Inc., Long Island’s largest publicly traded company, said that a “cybersecurity incident” it discovered Saturday affected some of its manufacturing and distribution businesses. “Henry Schein promptly took precautionary action, including taking certain systems offline and other steps intended to contain the incident, which has led to temporary disruption of some of Henry…
Oklahoma City University data breach lawsuit dismissed
Jessy Edwards and Jon Styf provide an update to a previously reported class action lawsuit against Oklahoma City University: A judge dismissed an Oklahoma City University class action lawsuit regarding a data breach, saying the plaintiff did not show any injury or identity theft as a result of the breach. U.S. District Judge Timothy G….
NV: Personal information accessed in Clark County School District cybersecurity incident (1)
C.C. McCandless reports: The Clark County School District announced that a recent cybersecurity incident allowed an “unauthorized party” to access personal information of some students, parents and employees. The district said it became aware of the hack on Oct. 5, adding that it involved the email environment. “Upon discovering the incident, CCSD immediately engaged a…
Cook County Health and Hospitals System terminates relationship with medical transcription service, notifying patients of breach
On September 24, Cook County Health and Hospitals System (CCH) in Illinois notified HHS of a breach. At the time, CCH reported that 500 patients were affected. The “500” entry is usually just a marker to indicate that the entity knows that they were required to notify HHS and individuals no later than 60 days…