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Zoe Low reports: A filing cabinet containing more than 400 patient records was suspected to have been mistakenly disposed of by a contractor at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital last Friday. The locked four-drawer steel cabinet was used to store the serv… Continue reading 400 patient records lost after cabinet at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital mistakenly removed by contractor
Claudia Calleja has an update on litigation following a voter data leak involving C-Planet IT Solutions Ltd. Three of the 337,384 Maltese voters whose data was leaked in a massive security breach in April, have filed a complaint with the Data Protecti… Continue reading Three voters demand €10m fine for IT firm behind huge data breach
On September 20, this site noted a breach impacting some residents of Pell City, Alabama. At that time, there were many unanswered questions based on the little the city had disclosed. Now they have published a press release that reveals that the brea… Continue reading Pell City notifies residents of vendor breach
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports on a lawsuit that stems from a breach first reported on this site in March, 2019. She reports: A medical device maker has sued an IT vendor in the wake of an email server migration mishap that exposed the health data of… Continue reading Breach Lawsuit Spotlights Complex Vendor Issues
Jake Holland and Andrea Vittorio report: Cybersecurity consultants could be on the hook for data breaches at companies they contract with after two recent court rulings in consumer class actions. Accenture Plc’s U.S. unit in October failed to escape cl… Continue reading Cyber Consulting Firms Get Tied Up in Post-Breach Lawsuits
Earlier this week, Marianne Kolbasuk McGee had a follow-up piece on the Blackbaud ransomware incident. As part of her update, she reported that Blackbaud would not provide answers when asked about the number or names of clients involved in the incident… Continue reading Almost 11 million patients impacted by Blackbaud incident — and still counting
Dillon Davis reports Rady Children’s Hospital has disclosed that some patient data was impacted by the Blackbaud ransomware incident earlier this year: Those files contained personal information including names, addresses, physicians, department of ser… Continue reading Data breach involving personal information reported at Rady Children’s Hospital
DataBreaches.net has previously noted a breach involving a Medicaid billing service that school districts use. Timberline Billing Service, LLC has not responded to this site’s inquiries (yet). Today, this site also reached out to College Communit… Continue reading College Community School District notifies parents of Medicaid billing service breach
Note: the following is a press release from AMMC. DataBreaches.net reached out to Technology Management Resources, but has received no reply by publication time. This post will be updated if a reply is received. Arkansas Methodist Medical Center (“AMMC… Continue reading Arkansas Methodist Medical Center Notification of Technology Management Resources Security Incide
Brian Krebs has additional information on the Gunnebo attack mentioned yesterday in discussing the leak of security-related files concerning the Swedish parliament: In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hacker… Continue reading Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo