Sean Lyngaas reports: A cyberattack earlier this month forced produce giant Dole to temporarily shut down production plants in North America and halt food shipments to grocery stores, according to a company memo about the incident obtained by CNN. The previously unreported hack — which a source familiar with the incident said was ransomware —…
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Trove of L.A. Students’ Mental Health Records Posted to Dark Web After Cyber Hack
Mark Keierleber reports: Detailed and highly sensitive mental health records of hundreds — and likely thousands — of former Los Angeles students were published online after the city’s school district fell victim to a massive ransomware attack last year, an investigation by The 74 has revealed. The student psychological evaluations, published to a “dark web”…
Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services settles data breach litigation for undisclosed amount
Rehoboth Mckinley Christian Health Care Services (“RMCHCS”) in New Mexico has reportedly settled litigation stemming from a ransomware attack that DataBreaches first reported in February 2021. Although Conti ransomware threat actors had added the health care service to their leak site and leaked some patients’ protected health information as proof of claims, there was nothing…
Protenus releases its 2023 Breach Barometer for Health Data Breaches
Protenus LLC has released its seventh annual Breach Barometer report. Unlike other analyses that seem to rely solely on reports to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Breach Barometer uses a broader lens and includes reports from non-HIPAA entities that involved medical data or health insurance information on employees or patients. There…
Ca: Sobeys admits to data breach in fall 2022, alerts customers and employees
Hafsa Arif provides an update on the ransomware attack on Sobeys, a Canadian supermarket chain, by Black Basta last year: The Maritime-based Empire Co. – parent company of Sobeys – acknowledges customers and employees past and present are receiving letters saying their personal information may have been compromised. Read more at CTV.
Aviacode remains silent after 0mega dumps 200 GB of their files
On January 9, DataBreaches noticed that Aviacode had been added to the leak site for 0mega. Aviacode, which is part of GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, offers medical coding services, medical coding audits, coding denial management, clinical documentation improvement, and revenue cycle management for billings and claims. As such, it is often a business associate for HIPAA-covered…