AAP reports: A Sydney IT contractor has been charged over a data breach at a property evaluation firm that allegedly affected more than 270,000 people, cost the company more than $8 million and resulted in troves of personal information being uploaded onto the dark web. Stephen Grant allegedly accessed and published more than 170,000 data…
Ca: Pharmacy patient health files discovered at Rankin landfill
Darrell Greer reports: The North West Company has recently issued a public information release notifying Kivalliq residents that materials containing health information were recovered from the Rankin Inlet landfill site this past Feb. 28. The release went on to state that the information belonged to patients of the previously operating Sakku Drugs in Rankin (since…
TN: ‘Father of Identity Theft’ Convicted on 13 Federal Counts
Dark Reading reports: James Jackson, a 58-year-old Memphis resident, used the identities of deceased individuals to steal money from banks and the estates of the dead. James Jackson, the self-proclaimed “Father of Identity Theft,” has been convicted of 13 counts of mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, access device fraud, and theft of mail. He now…
IN: Goshen Health notifies patients potentially impacted by 2018 data security breach
Sometimes, an incident that doesn’t appear to require notification may require notification under HIPAA. In an August, 2018 incident reported on The Elkhart Truth that involved Goshen Health, the health system originally determined that no notification was required, but when forensic investigators came in months later and looked for any information that might have been…
PA: Wyoming Area School District pays $38,000 ransom to free their network from attack
Andy Mehalshick reports: A school district in Luzerne County confirmed Tuesday it was the victim of a ransomware attack that locked up their computers for weeks. Wyoming Area School District officials say they had no choice but to pay up to free their computer network. “It slowed things down,” Wyoming Area senior Jack Dileo said….
Sarrell Dental notifies almost 400,000 patients after ransomware attack
Sarrell Dental in Alabama notified HHS on Sept 12 of an incident impactng 391,472 patients, but their report did not get posted right away, which may explain why this incident has pretty much flown under the media radar. According to Wikipedia, Sarrell Dental and Eye Centers, is a non-profit orgranization and the largest dental provider in…