MA: Northeastern Cancels Vaccination Clinics After Third-Party Information Leak
Jay Willett reports: COVID-19 vaccination clinics scheduled on Northeastern University’s Boston campus have been cancelled following the discovery of registrants’ personal information being exposed by...
View ArticleVPN Solutions LLC suffered a ransomware attack two months ago. Some clients...
It appears that a ransomware incident involving VPN Solutions LLC may have affected a number of covered entities, although so far, DataBreaches.net has only identified two confirmed cases: Surgery...
View ArticleAR: Crawford County Assessor’s Office is the latest public entity to be hit...
5News reports that an Arkansas county has been hit by a cyberattack, although the details are not yet clear: According to Crawford County Judge Dennis Gilstrap, a cyberattack was discovered at the...
View ArticleVendor hack slows NJ state agency’s ability to print documents
101.5 reports: Receiving a printed state document could prove to be a challenge because of an issue with the vendor used by the state. The state office of Office of Information Technology, which...
View ArticleUVA Health notified patients after Ciox Health data breach
Someone on Twitter asked me what the first breach of 2022 would be. The following public notice is not the first breach of 2022. It is a 2021 breach that just showed up after midnight in my news search...
View ArticleFTC Finalizes Order with Mortgage Analytics Firm, Requiring it to Strengthen...
In December, 2020, the FTC announced a proposed settlement with Texas-based Ascension Data & Analytics after a security breach involving one of its vendors resulted in the exposure of, and...
View ArticleFinalSite ransomware attack shuts down thousands of school websites
Lawrence Abrams reports: FinalSite, a leading school website services provider, has suffered a ransomware attack disrupting access to websites for thousands of schools worldwide. FinalSite is a...
View ArticleThe Impact of Data Security Incident Trends on Commercial Transactions: Part...
Craig Carpenter and Erika Vela of BakerHostetler write: As the BakerHostetler Digital Risk Advisory and Cybersecurity team wraps up the 2022 edition of annual Data Security Incident Response (DSIR)...
View ArticleConnecticut company that hosts school websites recovering from ransomware attack
Jesse Leavenworth reports: A Glastonbury-based company that hosts thousands of school websites in Connecticut and across the nation continued to recover Monday from a ransomware attack launched last...
View ArticleCOVID testing appointment scheduling service discovers data breach
Jan. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — On or around November 30, 2021, Practolytics LLC (“Practolytics”) learned that it experienced a data security incident. A client-generated report containing COVID testing...
View ArticleKronos hackers stole personal info of Metro-North workers, MTA says
David Meyer reports: Ransomware hackers who breached the network of MTA timeclock provider Kronos made off with the personal information of several current and former Metro-North employees, transit...
View ArticleAccellion reaches $8.1 mln settlement to resolve data breach litigation
Sara Merken reports: Accellion Inc has reached an $8.1 million deal with a proposed nationwide class to end litigation over a breach of its legacy file transfer product, a platform that allowed...
View ArticleHackers disrupt payroll for thousands of employers — including hospitals
Becky Sullivan reports that the Kronos ransomware incident continues to disrupt payroll for employees around the country: A month-old ransomware attack is still causing administrative chaos for...
View ArticleJackson Hospital responded quickly to ransomware incident
Sean Lyngaas reports: It was approaching midnight on Sunday and the head of IT at a Florida hospital had a problem. The emergency room of Jackson Hospital, a 100-bed facility on Florida’s panhandle,...
View ArticleMt: IT firm C-Planet fined €65,000 over massive voter data breach
Ivan Martin reports: An IT firm responsible for a massive leak of voter data has been fined €65,000 for data breaches. Data Protection Commissioner Ian Deguara issued the administrative penalty against...
View ArticleKings Plant Barn the latest retailer hit by click-and-collect data breach
Chris Keall reports: Kings Plant Barn has contacted customers about a security breach to FlexBooker, the internet-based system it uses to organise click-and-collect bookings. Names, email addresses and...
View ArticleGA: Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic reports breach to HHS
It appears that Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic in Georgia reported a breach to HHS on January 3 that impacted 53,686 patients. They reported the breach as “hacking — other.” There is nothing on their...
View ArticleAttorney General James Announces $600,000 Agreement with EyeMed After 2020...
New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a $600,000 agreement with EyeMed that resolves a 2020 data breach that compromised the personal information of approximately 2.1 million...
View ArticleHit by Conti ransomware in October, Medical Healthcare Solutions now...
On January 21, Medical Healthcare Solutions issued a statement on its website about a ransomware attack, although they do not state that it was a ransomware attack. Nor do they identify the incident as...
View ArticleCareSouth Carolina hit with proposed class action lawsuit
ClassActions.org reports that CareSouth Carolina has been hit with a potential class action lawsuit. The caption is Mixon v. CareSouth Carolina, Inc. § 4:22-CV-00269 You can access a copy of the...
View Article