The following press release from the NYS Attorney General’s Office relates to an incident previously noted on DataBreaches.net. The Assurance of Discontinuance provides details on the breach not previously known to this site and serves as a reminder of the need to timely update and patch. NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James…
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Fourth Circuit Holds Statements About Importance of Data Security Not Actionable
Amy Heath and Eric Bosset of Covington and Burling write: The Fourth Circuit’s opinion last week in In re Marriott International, Inc., — F.4th —-, No. 21-1802 (4th Cir. Apr. 21, 2022), could prove useful to companies facing data breach class actions. Following a data breach of the Starwood guest reservation system, Marriott investors brought securities…
AlphaV claims attack on Florida International University (updated)
It’s been a while since DataBreaches.net reported on data security incident involving Florida International University in Miami, but if AlphaV’s claims are true, they have been breached again. AlphaV (“BlackCat”) added FIU to their leak site and claim: In our design the following information: -Personal information of students and teaching staff, including confidential data, SSN,…
Washington State Data Breaches in 2021 – Analysis
The Washington State Attorney General report on data breaches reported to their office in 2021 shows a significant increase over previous years. No surprise there, right? From the Executive Summary: 2021 set a new record for the highest number of data breach notices sent to Washingtonians (6.3 million). This represents approximately an 80% increase on…
Class action lawsuit filed against Roper St. Francis Healthcare over multiple data breaches
Regular readers may recall that September, 2020 was not a good month for St. Roper Francis, and DataBreaches.net had to explain that the healthcare system was dealing with notifications from two unrelated breaches. One involved 6,000 patients impacted by a hack of an employee’s email account. The other involved more than 90,000 patients impacted by…
They, too, also issued breach notices…
Each week, I post some articles on this site about breaches involving protected health information or medical information, but there are usually other reports that just get entered on my worksheets for analysis for Protenus. To give you a taste of how many more incidents we record but not necessarily post in a week, I…