Austin Horn reports: The City of Frankfort says it learned of a hack to its servers on Sunday. Two separate sources with knowledge of the situation — including one city employee — told The State Journal that the city is being held ransom. Both spoke on condition of anonymity. After an inquiry from the newspaper,…
TX: Novus Hospice CEO Pleads Guilty to Healthcare Fraud
March 19 – The CEO of a local hospice agency has pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare and Medicaid, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah. Bradley J. Harris, the 39-year-old former head of Novus and Optimum Health Services, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and healthcare…
Clothes retailer Fatface: Someone’s broken in and accessed your personal data, including partial card payment details… Don’t tell anyone
Jude Karabus reports: British clothes retailer Fatface has infuriated some customers by telling them “an unauthorised third party” gained access to systems holding their data earlier this year, and then asking them to keep news of the blunder to themselves. Several people wrote into The Register to let us know about the personal data leak, with reader…
Haven Behavioral Hospital provides Notice of Data Incident
Note: The following notice concerns Haven Behavioral Hospital of Philadelphia and Haven Behavioral Hospital of Eastern Pennsylvania. DataBreaches.net also found that Cottonwood Creek Behavioral Hospital, Phoenix, Frisco (Texas), and Dayton (Ohio) Haven hospitals all published identical notices yesterday. A notice on Haven Behavioral’s web site is not specific to any named hospitals, suggesting that this incident may…
Utah Becomes the Second U.S. State to Establish Affirmative Defenses for Data Breach
Alyssa Aquino, Judith Selby, and Joanna Storey of Hinshaw write: In enacting the Cybersecurity Affirmative Defense Act, HB80, (Act) on March 11, 2021, Utah became the second state in the U.S. to create affirmative defenses for “persons” to certain causes of action arising out of a breach of system security.[1] “Persons” is defined to include…
FL: Polk County Schools says student information may have been exposed in data breach
WTSP reports: If you have a student who goes to school in Polk County you might have gotten a letter from a company called PCS Revenue Control Systems, Inc. about a data breach. Don’t throw that letter away. The Polk County School District says it’s legitimate and you might need the instructions that come on it…