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No significant details on this one yet, but Dayton Independent School District in Texas notified the Texas Attorney General’s Office that 841 Texans were notified by mail on April 14 of a data breach that involved names and Social Security Number… Continue reading TX: Dayton Independent School District reports breach
Newman Regional Health (NRH) is notifying more than 52,000 patients after an investigation revealed unauthorized access to a limited number of their employee e-mail accounts between January 26, 2021 and November 23, 2021. NRH is not a large hospital. A… Continue reading Newman Regional Health notifies 52,224 patients after long-running breach of employee email accounts
The gap from the disclosure of a data breach to the filing of a potential class-action lawsuit is often a matter of weeks (or less), although a lot of lawsuits are dismissed for lack of Article III standing (see a 2021 review of data breach liti… Continue reading SuperCare Health Sued After Data Breach
Jordan Unger reports: The MetroHealth System confirmed Wednesday that about 1,700 patients were affected by an accidental data breach. According to MetroHealth, the issue occurred during an upgrade to their electronic medical record system on Nov. 13. … Continue reading About 1,700 MetroHealth patients affected by data breach
Jeff Lagasse reports: Industries are increasingly being sued by consumers for data breaches, but the sector with the biggest litigation increase is healthcare, according to new findings from the law firm BakerHostetler. In fact, healthcare comprises 23… Continue reading Patients increasingly suing hospitals over data breaches
Reuters reports: Russian hackers attempted to launch a destructive cyberattack on Ukraine’s electricity grid last week, Ukrainian officials and cybersecurity researchers said on Tuesday. The group, dubbed “Sandworm” by security researchers and previous… Continue reading Russian hackers tried to sabotage Ukrainian power grid – officials, researchers
Azeefa Fathima reports: The data of thousands of persons who had registered for attending the annual Chithirai festival of the Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple, was leaked via an email sent to those who registered on the temple’s website. The leaked data… Continue reading Massive data leak of devotees from Meenakshi temple, admin claims technical glitch
It’s been a while since DataBreaches.net reported on data security incident involving Florida International University in Miami, but if AlphaV’s claims are true, they have been breached again. AlphaV (“BlackCat”) added FIU to th… Continue reading AlphaV claims attack on Florida International University
It’s the weekend, but breaches don’t take a break. Some breach or leak disclosures that I spotted in reading the news today: Ballad Health in Tennessee has disclosed a breach. As reported by WCYB, who also includes the full notice from Ball… Continue reading Weekend potpourri of breaches and leaks
Whitefish School District in Montana recently reported a data breach they discovered on March 11. An investigation discovered that an employee’s computer had been accessible to an attacker because the employee had fallen for a social engineering … Continue reading Whitefish School District notifies 1,663 after employee fell for social engineering scam