The Record reports: More than 19,000 online accounts on a California state platform for welfare programs may have been accessed by hackers for nearly a year. Officials at the California Statewide Automated Welfare System filed breach notification documents with state regulators earlier this month, warning participants in the BenefitsCal program about an intruder. A spokesperson explained that […]
There is an update to the IRS data breach by contractor Charles Littlejohn, who leaked returns from former President Trump, Elon Musk, and other billionaires. Bloomberg Law reports: Some taxpayers are learning that their data was leaked in the widespread breach by a former IRS contractor that led to the release of former President Donald […]
Marco A. De Felice reports: Another significant data breach looms for United Healthcare (UHC), involving patient documents belonging to its Optum financial assistance program and its subsidiary Change Healthcare. In recent hours, the ransomware group Medusa has claimed on its website, within Tor networks, the cyberattack on the servers of Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health (NEON), a company providing healthcare services headquartered in Cleveland, […]
Healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente has joined the ranks of those who have disclosed that their websites may have improperly shared protected health information with others. The issue with tracking pixels was first highlighted in investigative reporting by The Markup last year. They have continued to report on the issues, including fines paid, litigation, and Federal […]
Hackers exploited remote access that had no multifactor authentication UHG states it paid ransom to protect patient data UnitedHealth Group (UHG) issued a statement yesterday, claiming they were announcing support for people who might be concerned about their personal data being affected by the massive Change Healthcare data breach. Their statement says, in part: Based […]
The House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee held a hearing yesterday, “Examining Health Sector Cybersecurity in the Wake of the Change Healthcare Attack.” It reportedly did not go well for Change Healthcare and UnitedHealth Group, who were not invited to testify and who did not send any representatives to the hearing. The committee was previously […]
Although the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the authority to investigate data breaches, some entities they have investigated have pushed back against the regulator. In 2013, FTC filed a complaint against LabMD for allegedly failing to protect consumer’s data. When the government found for itself in a proceeding by an administrative law judge, LabMD sued […]
Less than two weeks after Omni Hotels & Resorts admitted that they had been the victim of a cyberattack, a known ransomware gang has publicly claimed that they were responsible for the attack. A post on Daixin Team’s dark web leak site claimed they had “Sensitive data. (Including all records of all visitors from 2017 […]
Sisense Security Week reports: The US government cybersecurity agency CISA on Thursday issued a red-alert for what appears to be a massive supply chain breach at Sisense, a New York company that sells big-data analytics tools to businesses. In a cryptic note, CISA warned of a recent “compromise of Sisense customer data” that was discovered […]
While Change Healthcare UnitedHealth Group claims it continues to make progress in mitigating the impact to consumers and care providers of a massive cyberattack in February on its system and services, Radiology Business provides a grimmer picture of the impact and recent situation: The incident first occurred in February, shutting down the nation’s largest clearinghouse […]
