Almost one year after Magnolia Pediatrics notified 11,000 patients about a ransomware attack on an unnamed IT vendor, they are now notifying more than 12,000 patients of another attack. This time, they wound up firing their vendor. According to a notification on their web site, on March 26, the Magnolia Pediatrics discovered a security incident….
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Northern California casino shut down by external computer attack
Sam Stanton reports: Northern California’s Cache Creek Casino Resort, which has been shut down since Sept. 20 because of what it called a “systems infrastructure failure,” confirmed Wednesday that its computer systems were the target of an outside attack and that the incident is under investigation. “While our investigation is ongoing, we have confirmed the cause was an external…
Health Insurer Pays $6.85 Million to Settle Data Breach Affecting Over 10.4 Million People
HHS has announced another big settlement and corrective action plan. This one stems from a hack of Premera Blue Cross (PBC) in 2014 that went undetected until March of 2015. DataBreaches.net had covered this incident at the time and the follow-ups that included a class action lawsuit that settled, a settlement with state attorneys general,…
The High Cost of Reporting a Non-Reportable Data Breach
Mark Rasch raises an important issue — the risks of reporting a breach that you may not need to report. Using the Blackbaud incident as his starting point, he writes: In May, cloud provider Blackbaud was the victim of a ransomware attack designed to lock it out of accessing its own data and servers. The…
Legal action underway over University of Cumbria data breach
Cumbria Crack reports: Students, staff and partners of universities across the UK who may have had their personal details leaked online are preparing to take legal action against the organisations amidst concerns that more should have been done to protect their data. Confidential information including names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses…
Interim Report on Blackbaud Breach: 5.6 million patients and counting…
Since our first interim report, DataBreaches.net has continued to compile reports that mention patient information that was disclosed to Blackbaud and that may have been accessed or exfiltrated by ransomware threat actors in the data breach discovered in May. Despite the criminals pinky-swearing that they wouldn’t misuse the data and would destroy it all in…