Condé Nast notifies 1,100 WIRED subscribers after subscriber page vendor breach
Condé Nast is notifying about 1,100 WIRED subscribers of a breach involving their payment information. In a notification letter dated May 9, they write: The WIRED subscription page is hosted by a...
View ArticleUpdate: West Hartford officials warn parents of test registration platform...
Doug Levin kindly alerted me that the Hartford Courant has a story on the Total Registration data security incident. … The school officials said that Total Registration, used by the district to...
View ArticleUtah knew the company it picked to create standardized tests had a history of...
Courtney Tanner reports: In other states, the year-end tests were marked by glitches and cyberattacks and hourlong delays. One school district threw out its results because the software was so...
View ArticleTennessee, 15 Other States Reach $900,000 Data Breach Settlement With Medical...
Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III announced Wednesday that a U.S. District Court judge has signed a consent judgment negotiated by 16 states’ attorneys general and Medical Informatics...
View ArticleUnsurprisingly, big numbers from the AMCA breach are starting to be revealed
On May 10, when DataBreaches.net first reported that the American Medical Collection Agency had been breached, we reported that information from 200,000 payment cards had been found for sale on a...
View ArticleAetna first notifying 238 Virginia employees of BenefitMall breach that...
In January, 2019, we learned about a breach at Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services, Inc. d/b/a BenefitMall, a business associate. The breach reportedly affected more than 111,000 insurance...
View ArticleAnd so it begins… state attorneys general investigating American Medical...
From the Illinois Attorney General’s Office: Chicago — Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced an investigation into the data breach at American...
View ArticleTwo Maryland medical practices notify patients after business associate error...
Maryland-based Capitol Cardiology Associates (CCA) and Southern Maryland Medical Group (SMMG) are notifying patients because of an incident involving a third-party vendor/business associate. According...
View ArticleMA: ResiDex Software discloses ransomware incident affecting clients’...
And yet another ransomware incident. They do not disclose the number of patients who were notified about this. Of note, sounds like their recovery was pretty smooth because they were prepared. BOSTON,...
View ArticleAU: Queensland Health launches investigation after medical files found on...
Josh Bavas reports: Queensland Health is investigating how a large parcel of patients’ medical documents, earmarked for destruction, were lost on a busy Brisbane road. A staff member came across the...
View ArticleData breach exposes information of nearly 15,000 patients of LA County’s...
Pierce Singgih reports: The personal data of 14,591 L.A. County patients has been exposed in a hack of an L.A. County Department of Health Services contractor’s email, officials said Tuesday. An...
View ArticlePenobscot Community Health Center notifying 13,000 patients about collection...
Add Penobscot Community Health Center in Maine to the list of entities that had patients affected by the American Medical Collections Agency hack.They posted the following notice on their website: PCHC...
View ArticleUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln offering identity protection after laptop with...
Chris Dunker reports: More than 900 current and former employees of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources have been offered identity theft protection after...
View ArticleAnother AMCA victim starts notifying patients
Add Texas-based Clinical Pathology Laboratories to the list of providers impacted by the breach at American Medical Collection Agency. Here is their press release, issued yesterday: AUSTIN, Texas,...
View ArticleHIPAA nightmare: An IT vendor’s error left more than 300,000 files with...
Medico, Inc.’s IT vendor’s error left at least two Amazon buckets unsecured More than 300,000 files contained protected health information related to patient billing, complete with insurance...
View ArticlePA: Software firm, health care provider accuse each other of theft
Nicholas Malfitano reports on a lawsuit in which a healthcare provider, Post Acute Medical, LLC (PAM), accuses the former owner and operator of its computerized records database, Christopher LeBlanc...
View ArticleVictims of AMCA’s breach allege AMCA not helpful enough in incident response
The other day, I wondered aloud whether there was anything the American Medical Collection Agency (Retrieval Masters) could have done after they were hacked to keep their big clients like Quest...
View ArticleSouth Texas Dermatopathology and Laboratory of Dermatopathology ADX Notify...
Update: And now add Seacoast Pathology, Inc. to the list. You can find their press release here. Add another 10,000 to the approximately 20,000 described below, and the approximately 21 million...
View ArticleHackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project and more
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have breached SyTech, a contractor for FSB, Russia’s national intelligence service, from where they stole information about internal projects the company was working on...
View ArticleEight Many more covered entities reveal they were impacted by AMCA breach
In the past few days, eight even more entities have revealed that their patients were impacted by the American Medical Collection Agency (Retrieval Masters) data breach that results in AMCA filing for...
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