Collaborate Disseminate
Christopher Brown reports: Illuminate Education Inc. defeated for the second time a proposed class action alleging it failed to protect the personal information of more than 3 million elementary and high school students, which was exposed in a December… Continue reading Illuminate Education Defeats Data Breach Lawsuit for Second Time
Thomas Brewster reports: A hacker told the FBI earlier this year that he sold access to the personal data of Marriott hotel customers on a Russian forum, according to a search warrant obtained by Forbes. He also hacked into a number of U.S. state death… Continue reading A Hacker Faked His Own Death–Then Claimed To Have Sold Marriott Customer Data To Russians, FBI Says
As part of an ongoing investigation into the May 2023 data breach of Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer software on the corporate network of Maximus Federal Services, Inc. (Maximus Federal Services), a contractor to the Medicare program, the Center fo… Continue reading CMS Notifies Additional Individuals Potentially Impacted by MOVEit Data Breach
Sometimes you think you did a good job — and sometimes you actually did do a good job compared to everyone else — but someone comes along and says what you did wasn’t satisfactory at all. And when that “someone” is the U…. Continue reading Was a recent OCR settlement fair? Maybe, but maybe not.
News12 on Long Island reports that the Perry Johnson & Associates (PJ&A) breach reported previously on this site has also affected Northwell Health, a major health system on Long Island. PJ&A is the same medical transcription service vendor… Continue reading PJ&A data breach also affected millions of Northwell Health patients
CBC reports: All five southwestern Ontario hospitals impacted by a cyberattack just over two weeks ago will rebuild their networks from scratch, the hospitals say in an update Wednesday. But the hospitals also say the investigation into precisely whose… Continue reading Southwestern Ontario hospitals will rebuild network from scratch amid fallout from cyberattack; more data leaked
Kathleen Saylors and Jennifer La Grassa report: A database containing information on 5.6 million patient visits to Bluewater Health and the social insurance numbers of as many as 1,446 Chatham-Kent Health Alliance employees are among the data taken in … Continue reading Info from 5.6 million patient visits among data stolen in ransomware attack on Ontario hospital
As predicted, Daixin has leaked the third part of the data they exfiltrated from TransForm and Canadian healthcare entities. DataBreaches reported the first leak when Daixin publicly claimed responsibility for the attack. The second leak followed two d… Continue reading Update: Sensitive patient data leaked from TransForm ransomware incident
As some will likely have already noticed, Daixin Team released the second part of the data leak from five hospitals in Ontario that have IT services provided by TransForm SSO. The first leak, containing many patient records, was previously reported by … Continue reading Update: Daixin leaks more data from Bluewater Health and other hospitals; databases yet to be leaked
Bill Toulas reports: Okta is warning nearly 5,000 current and former employees that their personal information was exposed after a third-party vendor was breached. Okta is a San Fransisco-based cloud identity and access management solutions provider wh… Continue reading Okta hit by third-party data breach exposing employee information