Canada Post informs 44 large business customers of data breach affecting 950K...
Jackie Dunham reports: Canada Post has informed 44 of its large business customers that information relating to more than 950,000 customers was compromised after one of its suppliers fell victim to a...
View ArticleCaravus impacted by Netgain Technology breach because vendor failure to...
I’ve continued to add updates to a post about the Netgain Technology breach. Keep in mind that the ransomware incident occurred in November, 2020, and since January, we have seen entities disclosing...
View ArticleUMD-Baltimore updates Accellion breach notification after finding PII and PHI...
On April 1, DataBreaches.net reported that the University of Maryland, Baltimore was one of the educational entities impacted by the CLOP hack and exfiltration of Accellion client data, but that...
View ArticleTokyo Games organizers hit by data breach and info leak
Kyodo News reports: The organizing committee for the Tokyo Olympics has become the latest to be hit by a data breach through unauthorized access to an information-sharing tool developed by Fujitsu...
View ArticleBioTel Heart Notice of Breach of Personal Information
Cardiac biotelemetry firm BioTel seems to be issuing public notices about a data leak incident first reported on this site in August, 2020. The data were only secured when Amazon was contacted by a...
View ArticleAu: NSW Health confirms data breached due to Accellion breach
Asha Barbaschow reports: “Following the NSW government’s advice earlier this year around a world-wide cyber attack that included NSW government agencies, NSW Health is notifying people whose data may...
View ArticleTech vendor that provides constituent newsletter services to dozens of House...
John Bresnahan, Anna Palmer, and Jake Sherman report that iConstituent, a vendor providing an e-newsletter system used by many members of Congress for constituent outreach, was the victim of a...
View ArticleVolkswagen says a vendor’s security lapse exposed 3.3 million drivers’ details
Zack Whittaker reports: Volkswagen says more than 3.3 million customers had their information exposed after one of its vendors left a cache of customer data unsecured on the internet. The car maker...
View ArticleSome patients are first finding out about Blackbaud ransomware incident now
Little Hill Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Alcoholics, Inc. d/b/a Alina Lodge in New Jersey is first notifying patients whose data was involved in the Blackbaud ransomware incident early last...
View ArticleSe: Medhelp will pay 12 million SEK after the 1177 leak
SEK 12 million in penalty fees against the company Medhelp, half a million against the Stockholm Region and SEK 250,000 against each against Sörmland and Värmland. This is the outcome of the review...
View ArticleOhio Medicaid providers’ data may have been exposed from data breach
Update: This incident was subsequently reported to the Maine Attorney General’s Office as impacting 334,690. Keep in mind that those are providers, not patients. See Maximus’s notice to California...
View ArticleMercedes-Benz data breach exposes SSNs, credit card numbers
Ax Sharma reports: Mercedes-Benz USA has just disclosed a data breach impacting some of its customers. The company assessed 1.6 million customer records which included customer names, addresses,...
View ArticleBlackbaud must face data breach claims over 2020 ransomware attack
Sara Merken reports: (Reuters) – A South Carolina federal judge is allowing multidistrict data breach litigation against software company Blackbaud Inc to go forward, finding the plaintiffs have...
View ArticleMajor Swedish supermarket chain hit by cyberattack
AFP reports: One of Sweden’s biggest supermarket chains said Saturday it had to temporarily close around 800 stores nationwide after a cyberattack blocked access to its checkouts. “One of our...
View ArticleVolkswagen and Audi Hit with Data Breach Class Action
Kathryn Rattigan of Robinson + Cole writes that a two-year data leak by a vendor has resulted in a lawsuit: This week, Volkswagen AG’s U.S. entity and its Audi brand were hit with a class action for a...
View Article‘Shut down everything:’ Global Kaseya ransomware attack takes a small...
Chris Velazco and Rachel Lerman report: It was just after 12:30 p.m. on the Friday before the Fourth of July holiday when a warning popped up on Laschelle McKay’s computer screen. McKay, the town...
View ArticleKroger reaches $5M settlement with Accellion breach victims, as Supreme Court...
Jessica Davis reports: Kroger reached a $5 million lawsuit settlement with individuals impacted by a breach reported in February. The settlement was the third legal action tied to a health care data...
View ArticleAlliance Healthcare Services plans to ‘vigorously defend’ against ‘unfounded’...
There’s been a lot of media coverage about a potential class action lawsuit filed against Northeast Radiology and Alliance Healthcare Services. Now one of the defendants has issued a statement saying...
View ArticleAn insurtech startup exposed thousands of sensitive insurance applications
Zack Whittaker reports: A security lapse at insurance technology startup BackNine exposed hundreds of thousands of insurance applications after one of its cloud servers was left unprotected on the...
View ArticleNl: Leak at Covid testing company made it possible to fake results in...
NL Times reports: Due to a major leak at the coronavirus testing company Testcoronanu, it was possible for anyone to create their own Covid vaccination or test certificate, RTL Nieuws reported on...
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