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Sergiu Gatlan reports: Japanese electronics manufacturer Casio disclosed a data breach impacting customers from 149 countries after hackers gained to the servers of its ClassPad education platform. Casio detected the incident on Wednesday, October 11, … Continue reading Casio discloses data breach impacting customers in 149 countries
WCLO reports an update to the ransomware attack experienced by Rock County, Wisconsin in September after they were attacked by the Cuba ransomware gang: Rock County officials are refusing to pay the $1.9 million hackers are seeking to unlock files that… Continue reading Cuba ransomware gang demands $1.9 million for decryption key; Rock County refuses
From a press release from the NYS Attorney General’s Office today: New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $350,000 from a Long Island-based home health care company, Personal Touch Holding Corporation (Personal Touch), for failing … Continue reading Personal Touch Holding settles NY Attorney General’s lawsuit stemming from 2021 ransomware incident: will pay $350k, improve security
On October 6, DataBreaches reported a breach allegedly containing more than 600,000 lines of data on registered voters in D.C., where, according to the threat actors who listed it, each line represented one voter’s records. Although there may hav… Continue reading UPDATE: D.C. Board of Elections data breach contained fewer than 4,000 D.C. voters’ data
Indiana Attorney General Rokita led a coalition of 33 attorneys general in a multi-state investigation and litigation against health care clearinghouse Imnediata stemming from a breach disclosed in 2019. Background In January 2019, HHS OCR alerted Inme… Continue reading Inmediata settles multi-state litigation for $1.14 million; will improve data security and breach notification practices
Lawrence Abrams reports: Kwik Trip has released another statement on an ongoing outage, all but confirming it suffered a cyberattack that has led to IT system disruptions. Kwik Trip is a US chain of over 800 convenience stores and gas stations in Michi… Continue reading KwikTrip all but says IT outage was caused by a cyberattack
Newsday reports: Henry Schein Inc., Long Island’s largest publicly traded company, said that a “cybersecurity incident” it discovered Saturday affected some of its manufacturing and distribution businesses. “Henry Schein promptly took precautionary act… Continue reading Henry Schein Inc. discloses cyberattack
Jessy Edwards and Jon Styf provide an update to a previously reported class action lawsuit against Oklahoma City University: A judge dismissed an Oklahoma City University class action lawsuit regarding a data breach, saying the plaintiff did not show a… Continue reading Oklahoma City University data breach lawsuit dismissed
C.C. McCandless reports: The Clark County School District announced that a recent cybersecurity incident allowed an “unauthorized party” to access personal information of some students, parents and employees. The district said it became aware of the ha… Continue reading NV: Personal information accessed in Clark County School District cybersecurity incident
On September 24, Cook County Health and Hospitals System (CCH) in Illinois notified HHS of a breach. At the time, CCH reported that 500 patients were affected. The “500” entry is usually just a marker to indicate that the entity knows that … Continue reading Cook County Health and Hospitals System terminates relationship with medical transcription service, notifying patients of breach