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For the second time in the past year, an alliance serving dental practices has been hit with a cyberattack. Last year’s attack impacted patients at Kids First Dentistry & Orthodontics, a subsidiary of Professional Dental Alliance of Connect… Continue reading Email breach at vendor to alliance of dental practices impacts numerous practices, more than 170,000 patients
Anthony Mirenda, Stephen Garvey, and Natalie Panariello of Foley Hoag write: As we anticipated last spring, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has signaled that it will utilize civil enforcement of the False Claims Act (FCA) to address new and emerging cy… Continue reading DOJ Announces New Cyber-Fraud Initiative Promoting False Claims Act Enforcement Against Contractors and Grantees Failing to Follow Cybersecurity Standards
Mark Keierleber reports: A monitoring company that thousands of schools used during remote and hybrid learning to ensure students were on task may have inadvertently exposed millions of kids to hackers online, according to a September report by the sec… Continue reading Popular student monitoring software could have exposed thousands to hacks
WGRZ reports: Independent Health said Friday that the names, member ID numbers and medical information for over 500 Williamsville School District employees were accidentally released to stop loss carriers and brokers. The inadvertent breach took place … Continue reading Williamsville School employees’ private health data inadvertently leaked by Independent Health
There’s an update to a 2017 breach affecting patients of Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause. At the time, they reported a hack of a third-party server that impacted more than 14,000 patients. Today, the state of New Jersey announced … Continue reading NJ: Acting AG Bruck Announces Settlement with Fertility Clinic over Cybersecurity Lapses and Data Breach
Gary Baum reports: Students’ confidential academic files were hacked and exposed at Los Angeles private school Harvard-Westlake. Archived SAT scores, GPAs, transcripts and college recommendation letters were downloaded, then sent to a group of parents … Continue reading Data Hack Hits Alumni of Harvard-Westlake Private School
Steven Baker, Vishnu V. Shankar, and Julia Bihary of Proskauer write: In the recent and significant Warren v DSG Retail Ltd [2021] EWHC 2168 (QB) decision the High Court in England clarified the limited circumstances in which claims for breach of confi… Continue reading English High Court Clarifies Appropriate Causes of Action in Data Claim Where Defendant Was a Victim of Third-Party Cyber-Attack
Katherine Fung reports: A global telecommunications company has admitted that hackers may have had access to billions of text messages from potentially millions of cellphone users for years. Syniverse, which is part of the infrastructure used by AT&… Continue reading Hackers May Have Had Access to Billions of Texts for Years, Global Telecom Company Admit
Jessica Haworth has more details on a breach previously reported on this site. More than a million South African citizens have potentially had their personal data exposed after a ransomware attack at a debt recovery services firm. The company in questi… Continue reading Millions of South Africans caught up in security incident after debt recovery firm suffers ‘significant data breach’
Katharine Huntley reports: Listeners might not know it, but thousands of people in radio stations across the nation are working around the clock to get commercials on the air after they were targeted by Russian hackers. “It started with an email on Sun… Continue reading Vermont radio stations dealing with fallout from BlackMatter cyberattack