Keller Grover LLP is investigating a medical data breach involving PIH Health. According to a data breach notification recently sent to affected patients, email accounts of certain PIH Health employees were accessed by unauthorized third parties. Information contained within the breached email accounts included patient names, treatment and diagnosis information, Social Security Numbers, and driver’s license numbers. Negligent release and disclosure of personal and medical information is … [Read more...]
Investigation: Walgreens Medical data breach
Keller Grover LLP is investigating a medical data breach involving Walgreens. According to a data breach notification recently sent to affected patients, sensitive information such as patient names, prescription numbers and drug names, pharmacy locations, and shipping addresses of certain users of the Walgreens mobile app personal secure messaging feature were viewable by other customers using the Walgreen mobile app. Negligent release and disclosure of personal and medical information is … [Read more...]
More courts allow data breach victims to sue even if they haven’t (yet) suffered fraud
Malware attacks are in the news a lot these days. In some cases, hackers hold victims’ computers hostage in exchange for ransom. In other cases, they quietly install malware on a computer and then use it to siphon away a victim’s private information. It’s only gotten worse now that the hackers have learned that the big prizes are tucked away inside corporate networks, not individual PCs. One corporate hack can compromise the personally identifiable information (PII) of thousands of employees … [Read more...]
Investigation: Sunrun and eHealth
Keller Grover LLP is investigating data breaches involving Sunrun Inc. and eHealthInsurance Services, Inc. According to data breach notifications recently sent to affected employees, Sunrun and eHealth both were the victim of recent email spoofing attacks wherein Sunrun and eHealth employees turned over copies of 2016 employee W-2 forms to cyber criminals. An IRS Tax Form W-2 includes the following highly sensitive information: (1) employee name; (2) employee address; (3) employee Social … [Read more...]