![]() UCI Health has created a printable sheet of preventative measures and links to resources for the UC community to protect themselves from identity theft. Outside of signing up for Experian, UC is recommending individuals to take further steps to prevent identity theft, including placing fraud alerts on credit files, monitoring bank account statements and freezing credit reports across all three nationwide credit bureaus. “From not supporting students in their rent crisis and hefty tuition rates, not giving Black students the proper resources and recognition during a time of intense trauma, and this frankly embarrassing lack of protection for student privacy, the higher ups of the UCs have shown that they are not for the students.” “Through this past year, the disregard for students has become abundantly clear,” she said. “The same week this incident was announced, many UC employees also got notified that their health insurance provider ‘Health Net’ had a similar incident and are also providing a year of monitoring.”Ī former New University staff member and UC employee spoke with the New University regarding the leak of her Social Security number. “Those that have enrolled in the monitoring service are now receiving alerts that their social security numbers and other sensitive information was found on the dark web,” Chief Information Security Officer and Director of Information Security Joshua J. The service offers identity restoration as well as 24/7 search for trading and selling of personal information on the dark web. In response to the data breach, UC is providing members of the UC community a complimentary one-year subscription to Experian IdentityWorks, a credit monitoring and identity theft protection service. Individuals who receive emails threatening to publish stolen personal information are advised to forward them to their local information security department.Īccording to UC, the stolen information “includes but is not limited to names, addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, Social Security numbers and bank account information for a range of UC populations, including employees and their dependents and beneficiaries, retirees and their beneficiaries, students and their families, and potentially other individuals with connections to UC.” “The attackers are threatening to publish, or have published, stolen information on the dark web in an attempt to extort organizations and individuals,” UCOP said in a UC-wide email on April 2. The perpetrators “gained access to files and confidential personal information by exploiting a vulnerability” in Accellion’s File Transfer Appliance (FTA), which is used by the UC for transference of sensitive information. PT (Saturday and Sunday).The University of California Office of the President (UCOP) announced that UC was subject to a nation-wide cybersecurity attack on March 31. Kroger says it is in the process of reaching out to affected customers and will provide free credit monitoring to anyone affected.Īnyone with questions about the incident should contact Kroger's call center at 1 (855) 558-2999 between 6 a.m. ![]() Kroger says, at this time, it has no indication of fraud or misuse of personal information as a result of this incident. No credit or debit card data was stolen, but there is the potential risk of identity theft. ![]() Grocery pharmacies in other chains like Ralph's, Harris Teeter, and Fred Meyer stores may also have been involved in the breach. "After being informed of the incident's effect on January 23, 2021, Kroger discontinued the use of Accellion's services, reported the incident to federal law enforcement, and initiated its own forensic investigation to review the potential scope and impact of the incident," Kroger said. Kroger said there was unauthorized access to a software they use called Accellion.Īccellion is a vendor that provides secure third-party data file transfer services to over 3,000 customers around the world, according to Kroger. The breach did not impact grocery data, but could have involved personal health and insurance information used at the pharmacy. Supermarket chain Kroger is warning customers of a data breach in its Little Clinic pharmacy service. Kroger says the Accellion security breach did not impact grocery data, but could have involved personal health and insurance information used at the Little Clinic pharmacy.
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