Bobby Allyn reports: Federal law enforcement officials have announced criminal charges against two Russian nationals who operate a hacking organization known as Evil Corp., a group officials say is responsible for one of the most sweeping banking fraud schemes in the past decade. The criminal indictments were unsealed in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Lincoln, Nebraska, against Maksim Yakubets,...
Sunrise Community Health in Colorado has posted a notice concerning a recent data security incident. From their notice: A recent incident at Sunrise Community Health (“Sunrise”) may affect the privacy of certain information. Sunrise is unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of this information. However, Sunrise is providing notification to individuals whose information...
Kaley Johnson reports more trouble for Click2Gov software by CentralSquare Technologies: About 3,000 customers of the Fort Worth Water Department may have had had their information stolen due to a data breach, a department spokeswoman said. Those impacted would have made a one-time payment for Fort Worth water with a credit card between Aug. 27 and...
It’s gotten that there are so many ransomware incidents in the healthcare sector, that even tens of thousands of affected patients may not make headlines. One of the recent additions to HHS’s public breach tool involved the Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery of Minnesota. They reported that 80,000 patients were being notified. The...
Seaborn Larson reports: Kalispell Regional Healthcare, northwest Montana’s largest healthcare provider, was sued late last month by one of the 130,000 patients whose information was possibly compromised in a data breach announced by the hospital in October. William Henderson, represented by Billings attorney John Heenan, filed the civil complaint in Cascade County District Court on Nov....