data breach

Columbus experienced a data breach last Wednesday, the same day as an internet outage, city officials say.

Blackbaud provides software to nonprofit organizations to help them connect with donors. Its 2020 data breach exposed the information of more than 13,000 customers.

The lawsuit filed last week against CarePointe — an ear, nose, throat, sinus and hearing provider — claims it was aware of security risks prior to a ransomware event in 2021 that exposed the information of about 45,000 Indiana patients.

This announcement comes after an earlier announcement that the private information of more than 700,000 Medicaid clients in Indiana was exposed as part of the same breach.

The personal information of more than 700,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in Indiana has been exposed in a data breach in late May.

On July 4, Cybernews reported nearly 250,000 records after 1.3 million files were spread online in May.