Collaborate Disseminate
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
Two reports that I have been reading today: ARcare ARcare in Arkansas is notifying people whose personal and/or medical information may have been accessed or acquired in a malware incident. The malware enabled an unauthorized actor to access or acquire… Continue reading ARcare reports breach; Smile Brands updates its disclosure to 2.6 million affected
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: On Monday, the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT project announced that its Instagram account had been hacked in a tweet. “There is no mint going on today. It looks like BAYC Instagram was hacked. Do not mint anything, cli… Continue reading Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram Hacked, NFTs Worth Millions Stolen
Healthplex, Inc. in New York provides dental insurance plans. On November 24, 2021, an employee reportedly fell for a phishing attempt. As a result, the insurer notified 76,262 of their insured members whose personal information may have been impacted… Continue reading New York dental insurer reports phishing incident, French hospital group hit in ransomware incident
On April 20, DataBreaches.net reported that a threat actor contacted this site to say that a researcher, @ido_cohen2, had been scared off the internet after the threat actor’s colleague(s) used a fake Emergency Data Request (EDR) to obtain the re… Continue reading Silent no more: Exposing a campaign that intimidated researchers and journalists
From their notice: The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester (“MHCGM”) is providing notice of a recent data security event that occurred at a third-party community partner MHCGM had used for data storage, Center for Life Management (&#… Continue reading NH: Center for Life Management breach impacted mental health clients
From their notification: Illinois Gastroenterology Group, PLLC (“IGG”) is providing notice of a recent incident that may affect the security of certain individuals’ information. On October 22, 2021, IGG discovered unusual activity wit… Continue reading Illinois Gastroenterology Group is providing notification of breach first discovered last October