On January 1, 2022, Broward Health, which operates dozens of health care facilities in Broward County, Florida, notified over 1.3 million individuals that a threat actor gained access to and removed data from its system on October 15, 2021. The data exfiltrated and compromised included individuals’ names, addresses, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, Social
Blackbaud Must Face CCPA Claims in Multi-district Class Action from Data Breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Blackbaud, which suffered a data breach of its customers’ data in a ransomware attack in 2020, in which it admitted paying the ransom in a double extortion attack [view related posts], is facing multiple class action cases following the attack. The cases have been consolidated in multi-district litigation and now comprise 29 cases.
The…
Florida Unemployment Benefit Site Breached
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity, Data Breach
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) recently announced that it discovered on July 16, 2021 that its online unemployment benefit system, CONNECT was compromised, potentially affecting personal information of 57,000 accounts.
The information that may have been accessed in the incident includes individuals’ “personal details” including “social security number, driver’s license number, bank account…
School Nutrition Vendor Sued for Compromise of 867,209 K-12 Student Records
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in New + Now
PCS Revenue Control Systems, Inc. (PCS) was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit last week alleging that it discovered a data breach from a hacking attack in December 2019 but failed to notify the affected students until March of 2021.
According to the lawsuit, student information was collected by PCS’s predecessor, Advanced Business Technologies…
Canon Hit with Data Breach Class Action Suit by Former and Current Employees
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Canon) was hit with a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York this week for the ransomware attack that exposed current and former employees’ personal information in November 2020. The plaintiffs reside in Ohio, New York, Florida and Illinois, and allege that Canon was…
GEO Group Hit with Ransomware Attack
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO), a publicly held company located in Boca Raton Florida, announced on November 3, 2020, that it is beginning to notify individuals following a ransomware attack that “impacted a limited amount of personally identifiable information and protected health information for some inmates and residents contained on certain servers for a small…
Is this City Monitoring Me?
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Privacy
In Coral Gables, Florida, a judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit over the city’s use of automated license plate readers to scan license plates. This technology has faced a number of lawsuits over concerns about the collection and storage of data. The Coral Gables lawsuit stemmed from a Miami suburb resident who filed a request…
Super Bowl LIV—No Drone Zone
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), along with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, is informing drone operators of the restrictions on drone flights before, during and after Super Bowl LIV on Sunday, February 2 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The FAA expects more than 2,500 additional take-offs and landings and almost…
OCR Announces Second $85,000 Settlement for Alleged Violations of the Individual Right of Access under HIPAA
By Conor Duffy on
On December 12, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced its second “HIPAA Right of Access Initiative” settlement of alleged HIPAA violations.
The HIPAA Right of Access Initiative is a new effort in 2019 by OCR to monitor compliance with HIPAA requirements addressing patient rights to promptly…
Florida Municipalities Getting Hammered with Ransomware
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
Security researchers have warned municipalities repeatedly about how they are being targeted with ransomware, that they are at high risk, and the need to make data security a high priority.
Municipalities are unfortunately only taking heed now that recent ransomware campaigns are in the news and bringing some municipalities to their knees [view related posts…