Collaborate Disseminate
Erin Schilling reports: Some taxpayers are learning that their data was leaked in the widespread breach by a former IRS contractor that led to the release of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Four tax lawyers said they have seen letters from… Continue reading Wealthy Taxpayers Alerted to Leaked Data Years After IRS Breach
Lok Jian Wen reports: The names and e-mail addresses of parents and teachers of 127 primary and secondary schools were leaked after a mobile platform on students’ personal learning devices was hacked, said the Ministry of Education (MOE) on April 19. T… Continue reading Sg: App managing student devices in 127 schools hacked; names and e-mail addresses leaked: MOE
Christopher Brown reports: A proposed $6.49 million settlement of a lawsuit alleging that CorrectCare Integrated Health LLC failed to protect the personal information of 647,000 people in a January 2022 data breach was rejected by a federal court. Plai… Continue reading Proposed CorrectCare Breach Settlement Rejected Over Equitable Treatment
Early yesterday, Change Healthcare reported that they were experiencing enterprise-wide connectivity issues. They didn’t call it a cyberattack at that point, but by mid-day, their status reports were indicating that they were experiencing “… Continue reading Change Healthcare responding to cyberattack; few details known at this point
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: Medical Management Resource Group, which does business as American Vision Partners, works with – and “shares” a management system, IT and infrastructure with – 12 practices, according to its webs… Continue reading Hack at Services Firm Hits 2.4 Million Eye Doctor Patients
Zack Whittaker The U.S. Department of Defense is notifying tens of thousands of individuals that their personal information was exposed in an email data spill last year. According to the breach notification letter sent out to affected individuals on Fe… Continue reading US military notifies 20,000 of data breach after cloud email leak
Schools Week reports: The information watchdog is investigating reports of a data breach on the Class Charts behaviour management platform, which is used by tens of thousands of teachers. Some parents logging on to Class Charts last week were reportedl… Continue reading Reports of data breach on Class Charts platform
Fox4Beaumont reports: The Beaumont ISD phone system is now back online with a new vendor following a nationwide ransomware attack on January 23 that impacted the district’s entire phone system, according to information Jackie Simien, BISD’s… Continue reading Tx: BISD phone system now back online with new vendor following ransomware attack
On January 11, DataBreaches noted a concerning blob exposure discovered by Jerome Fowler and first reported by vpnMentor. As WIRED’s Matt Burgess reported: Last month, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered 800 gigabytes of files and logs… Continue reading Raptor Technologies’ unsecured blob exposure was worse than they acknowledged. Here’s what we know — and don’t know — so far.
Matt Burgess reports: Thousands of emergency planning documents from US schools—including their safety procedures for active shooter emergencies—were leaked in a trove of more than 4 million records that were inadvertently made public. Last month, secu… Continue reading US School Shooter Emergency Plans Exposed in Raptor Technologies Data Leak