Essen Health Care is a massive healthcare network of facilities and providers throughout New York City, Staten Island, and Westchester County. With more than 300 providers at a range of facilities connected to Essen Health Care, the organization maintains and stores a huge amount of medical and personal data for patients, providers, faculty, and more. All this data is protected by security features, but it was exposed in a recent breach.

Johns Hopkins is one of the leading teaching hospitals that serve approximately 500 medical students annually while caring for tens of thousands of patients. The facility has a total of 1091 beds and serves patients in primary care and trauma care, along with several specialties. The facility is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and because it serves so many students and patients, it stores a huge amount of personal and medical data. Some of that data was just released because of a breach.

The Utah Medicaid office offers healthcare to qualifying patients throughout the state. These patients rely on the organization to provide them with their medical insurance and to offer other services to them. While providing those services, the organization maintains health and wellness information as well as personal data. That's why it's concerning that the Utah Medicaid office recently experienced a self-caused data breach.

Data breaches are becoming more prevalent and serious each week in 2023, but this week was a bad one for the MOVEit file transfer service, as well as medical organizations and schools and school districts. Anyone utilizing MOVEit should immediately patch the service for their protection, but we're going to go into specifics about that breach, as well as breaches impacting the Pearland, Texas school district, Intellihartx, the MN Department of Education, and the Utah Medicaid system.

The Minnesota Department of Education oversees public schools throughout the state and manages data for special programs for the students at these organizations. The organization works with thousands of schools throughout the state and manages some data from students at many of these locations. For those reasons, the MDE is a prime target for data thieves looking to exploit students and their parents, and that's exactly what just happened.

Nearly 500,000 people lost medical and personal data in a recent ransomware attack on Intellihartx. The company is known for handling collections and patient balances for medical companies. The organization suffered a breach that lost a substantial amount of protected information for different people, and that's a serious problem that should be addressed as soon as possible.

The Pearland Independent School District spans over 23 separate campuses in the Pearland, Texas area. The district teaches over 21,000 students and employs as many as 1,771 individuals. The large district generates approximately $144 million in revenue annually and handles data for tens of thousands of students, parents, and employees.

MOVEit, a massive global fire-sharing service provider, recently suffered a data breach that could impact 100's of corporations in the United States, Europe, and many other areas of the world. The file-transfer service provider is supposed to offer a secure transfer solution, and it appears that it may not be as secure as so many hoped. This breach is the result of a ransomware attack, and that attack could result in substantial losses for so many involved.

Capital One is a large financial corporation and an American bank that offers financing and a range of other financial services to interested customers. The company works with millions of customers throughout the country, and with so much data and so many services, Capital One must rely on partners to deliver its services effectively. Its reliance on third-party companies is what caused the company to suffer from a substantial data breach that put more than 16,779 customers at risk.

Data breaches are a serious risk that can lead to a substantial amount of lost information annually. This week financial, legal, health, and education sectors were all hit. Major health insurance providers like MCNA and Harvard Pilgrim were exposed, legal company Casepoint suffered substantial data losses, the University of Rochester was hit, and Capital One also suffered significant losses.