Privacy

Two separate lawsuits were filed on Oct. 31 against WakeMed Health and Advocate Aurora Health after their breach notices disclosed inadvertent data sharing with Meta via its pixel tool.

While media companies have always been a prime target of hackers, they are not always set up to guard against insider threats or have the budgets to protect ever-expanding content operations.

The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority and United Healthcare have been sued in relation to a data breach that impacted Rhode Island's public bus service in August 2021, which has compromised data belonging to nearly 22,000 individuals, The Associated Press reports.

International ticketing services firm See Tickets has been hit by a data breach impacting customers' credit card details that commenced more than two and a half years ago, BleepingComputer reports.

Reuters reports that all of the almost four million customers of major Australian health insurance provider Medibank had their data compromised in a ransomware attack this month.

Email is typically used as a mere pivot point for threat actors. As healthcare regulations require evidence no patient data was accessed, providers must consider their PHI and data retention policies for these vulnerable platforms.

More than 167,000 payment records have been exfiltrated by threat actors in a point-of-sale malware campaign leveraging the Treasure Hunter and MajikPOS strains since February 2021, with most of the stolen data obtained from U.S.-based devices, reports CyberScoop.

In comments for a proposed rulemaking that would establish new protections for consumer health data, CHIME urges the FTC to use its enforcement authority to tackle privacy risks.