Q1 '25 Data Breaches
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First Quarter ~ 2025
JANUARY 2025
JAN 1
RIBRIDGES
Gov. Dan McKee said Monday that the state believes about 650,000 people had their data leaked in a breach of the health and human services benefits system called RIBridges.
The governor said those people would receive a letter in the mail in January explaining how to get free credit monitoring.
McKee also said that vendor Deloitte and the state IT department are "making progress" in getting RIBridges up and running, but he said it won't happen by Jan. 1.
As for benefits delivery, he said January funds under SNAP or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families should show up on EBT cards without a problem. He said there's no need to worry about benefits for those programs or Medicaid being terminated.
"There will be no terminations while the system is still down," McKee said.
JAN 1
ASCENSION HOSPITAL
Hospital operator Ascension told Maine's state attorney general on Friday that nearly 5.6 million people were affected in a ransomware attack that hit it earlier this year.
The company said an unspecified amount of medical data - including patients' medical records, lab tests and insurance information - was compromised.
Cybercriminals use ransomware to paralyze computer networks and extort a payment, typically in cryptocurrency. Many also steal data for added leverage.
Hospitals and healthcare providers - whose data is particularly sensitive and whose operations are especially critical - have regularly been targeted.
In a letter, opens new tab to the attorney general, Ascension's lawyer said the incident happened on May 7 and 8 and blamed it on a "cybercriminal", whom the company did not identify. Ascension did not immediately return a message seeking further comment.
JAN 1
LAS PALMAS DEL SOL
Cyberattacks have been announced by VisionPoint Eye Center in Illinois and Vickers Engineering in Michigan. Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare has discovered a former employee has accessed patient records without authorization and may have disclosed patient information to other unauthorized individuals.
El Paso Healthcare System, Ltd. d/b/a Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare, has recently notified 1,854 patients about an insider data breach detected on February 23, 2024. A former employee was discovered to have accessed patients’ medical records without authorization and may have disclosed patient information to other unauthorized individuals..