Collaborate Disseminate
Joshua Ceballos reports: All Priscilla Haring wanted from her divorce attorney, Richard Glenn Ozelie, was a divorce. But, according to her complaint filed in Broward civil court in March, what she got instead was scores of confidential files belonging … Continue reading Boca Raton Attorney Allegedly Leaked Clients’ Confidential Files
Keegan Brooks writes: The DeKalb County School District has been making thousands of files containing sensitive student and staff information widely accessible to anyone in the district. Types of information exposed have included social security number… Continue reading Insufficient Data Security and Disregard for Student Data Privacy Plague the DeKalb County School District; With Commentary by Jim Siegl
A Sunday two-fer on health data breaches: WellDyneRx, LLC (“WellDyne”) issued a press release on May 6 concerning an incident they first detected on December 2. The Florida-headquartered pharmacy benefits service provider’s investigat… Continue reading Sunday notes: Welldyne, North Alabama Bone & Joint Clinic disclose breaches affecting patient data
Seems to be a lot of Conti-related analyses this week, as well as the $10 million reward offered by the government for information leadings to Conti’s leaders. From Intel471: Software developers often depend on the collective knowledge of the ind… Continue reading Cybercrime loves company: Conti cooperated with other ransomware gangs
Kendall McKay and colleagues Paul Eubanks and Jaime Filson of Talos issued a report this week with some interesting insights. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Through open-source research, we obtained and analyzed over four months of chat logs — more than 40 separate… Continue reading Conti and Hive ransomware operations: Leveraging victim chats for insights
Long-time readers may recall that in 2017 and 2018, DataBreaches.net reported on hacks of two medical practices by someone calling himself “Lifelock.” DataBreaches’ past reporting on him can be found in this July, 2017 post (see comments un… Continue reading Update: U.S. v. Robert Purbeck aka “Lifelock”
Natalie Chuck reports that another district in Colorado has sent letters to parents about the breach at Illuminate Education that impacted more than 820,000 students in New York City as well as 24 other districts and 18 charter schools in NY: Someone, … Continue reading Another school district notifies parent of Illuminate breach
SafetyDetectives recently reported that Breastcancer.org has been exposing sensitive information in a misconfigured AWS bucket. According to their report, exposed data included more than 50,000 registered user avatars and more than 300,000 post images … Continue reading Breast Cancer Support Organization Leaks Data Despite Multiple Notifications?
Samantha Hawkins reports: Excellus Health Plan Inc. will settle a data breach lawsuit with a certified class over a 2013 hacking incident that compromised the personal data of approximately 10 million policyholders. Matthew Fero, who filed the suit aga… Continue reading Excellus Health Plan Settles Data Breach Suit With Policyholders
Zack Whittaker reports: myNurse, a healthcare startup that provides chronic care management and remote patient monitoring services, said it will shut down at the end of the month after reporting a data breach that exposed personal health information of… Continue reading Health startup myNurse to shut down after data breach exposed health records