Collaborate Disseminate
In December, INTEGRIS Health disclosed a cyberattack in November in which threat actors contacted patients directly to extort them when INTEGRIS wouldn’t pay their demands. DataBreaches subsequently reported additional details. On February 6, INT… Continue reading Update on INTEGRIS Health data breach: incident response criticized by patients
Chris Hoffman reports: The Washington County Board of Commissioners formally voted on Thursday on handling the recent cyberattack. Some have questioned the transparency of the process. The questions about transparency have been because of secret and em… Continue reading PA: Washington County pays $350,000 ransom after cyberattack
Jessica Lyons reports: Quest Diagnostics has agreed to pay almost $5 million to settle allegations it illegally dumped protected health information – and hazardous waste – at its facilities across California. This sum won’t hurt at all for the co… Continue reading Quest Diagnostics pays $5M after mixing patient medical data with hazardous waste
Brian Krebs reports: The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence, which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwid… Continue reading U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails
Suzanne Smalley reports: Over the course of the last week, 118 class action lawsuits were filed against data brokers who allegedly failed to respond to requests from about 20,000 New Jersey law enforcement personnel asking to remove their personal info… Continue reading New Jersey law enforcement officers sue 118 data brokers for not removing personal info
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
Shelly Bradbury reports: A cyberattack on the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender forced the agency to shut down its computer network, locking public defenders across the state out of critical work systems and prompting attorneys to seek delay… Continue reading Cyberattack shuts down Colorado public defender’s office
BakerHostetler writes: As noted back in December 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued dramatic guidance (often called the Bulletin) that targets the use of so-called Internet “tracking technolo… Continue reading BakerHostetler Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of 30 Hospitals and Health Systems
Brandon Vigliarolo reports: Organizations that sell IT services to Uncle Sam are peeved at proposed changes to procurement rules that would require them to allow US government agencies full access to their systems in the event of a security incident. T… Continue reading IT suppliers hacked off with Uncle Sam’s demands in aftermath of cyberattacks
Bleeping Computer reports that Verizon has notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office of an insider data breach affecting 63,206 employees. According to their sample notice of what was sent to those affected, an employee gained unauthorized acc… Continue reading Verizon insider data breach affects over 63,000 employees