OakBend Medical Center, a Richmond Texas based medical provider, announced that it was the target of a ransomware attack over the September Labor Day weekend. According to reports, the attack was first noticed on Sept 1st 2022 when files on its network were shown as encrypted. The IT infrastructure was immediately taken offline while authorities…
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Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC), an Arizona based healthcare provider, faces a class action over an April 2022 data breach that compromised the personal and health information of 737,448 current and former patients. Failure To Follow Industry Security Guidelines Allowed Hackers To Gain Access To Data The lawsuit alleges that YRMC failed to meet data…
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Lincare Holdings, Inc. faces a proposed class action lawsuit over its alleged failure to safeguard sensitive personal patient information stored on its servers. Lincare Waits Nine Months After Data Breach Before Informing Victims The lawsuit alleges Lincare, a medical equipment and services provider, was the subject of a cyber attack beginning on or about September…
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OneTouchPoint, Inc. faces a proposed class action over an April 2022 data breach that allegedly exposed consumer information stored by the printing and mailing services provider. The 46-page lawsuit alleges OneTouchPoint, whose customers include health insurance carriers and medical providers, failed to properly safeguard the personal information of over one million consumers. Per the suit,…
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Latest Data Breach At Flagstar Bank Puts 1.5 Million Customers At Risk Of Identity Theft Flagstar Bank, a Michigan-based financial services provider and one of the largest banks in the United States, has recently begun notifying 1.5 million customers of a data breach that occurred during a December 2021 cyber attack. According to data breach…
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Personal Identifying Information Involving 1.2 Million Patients Is At Risk For Identity Theft A class-action lawsuit was recently filed against Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and its affiliate, San Antonio, Texas-based Baptist Health System, over an April data breach that has affected 1.2 million patients. The lawsuit, filed in Dallas County, alleges that the health companies were…
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Lakeview Loan Servicing, the fourth largest U.S. mortgage loan servicer, recently suffered a data breach that exposed the Personal Identifying Information (PII) of over 2.5 million clients to the dark web. According to a lawsuit, hackers gained access to Lakeviews’ servers on or about October 27, 2021 but Lakeview wasn’t aware of the access until…
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The number of users whose personal information might have been compromised in a recent cyber attack of T-Mobile has climbed to 53 million, as the telecommunication company is hit by a pair of class-action lawsuits. T-Mobile announced Friday it had discovered that another 5.3 million current customers and 667,000 former customers also had their information…
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Forefront Dermatology has admitted a breach of its network may have exposed the personal data and medical records of up to 2.4 million patients. The records of staff at the Wisconsin-based organization have also been placed at risk from the compromise, which dates back to early June. The situation could have been even worse had the…
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