A California-based company called ClearBalance reported being the victim of a cyber assault and that over 200000 of their customers' personally identifiable information (PII) had been stolen during an email hacking incident.
ClearBalance said the personal information impacted included: names, tax IDs, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, government-issued IDs, phone numbers, healthcare account numbers, balances, dates of service, ClearBalance loan numbers, personal banking information, clinical information, health insurance information, and full-face photographs.
The business was updating its protocols for reporting suspicious activities, changing user account passwords, and "implementing stricter access controls in the cloud email environment.
Source: https://healthitsecurity.com/news/clearbalancedata-incidentimpactsover-200000uspatientspii
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/clearbalance
"id": "cle17293223",
"linkid": "clearbalance",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "07/2021",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 200000,
'industry': 'Healthcare',
'location': 'California',
'name': 'ClearBalance',
'type': 'Company'}],
'attack_vector': 'Email Hacking',
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 200000,
'personally_identifiable_information': ['names',
'tax IDs',
'Social Security '
'numbers',
'dates of birth',
'government-issued '
'IDs',
'phone numbers',
'healthcare account '
'numbers',
'balances',
'dates of service',
'ClearBalance loan '
'numbers',
'personal banking '
'information',
'clinical information',
'health insurance '
'information',
'full-face '
'photographs'],
'sensitivity_of_data': ['high'],
'type_of_data_compromised': ['PII']},
'description': 'ClearBalance reported being the victim of a cyber assault '
"where over 200,000 customers' personally identifiable "
'information (PII) was stolen during an email hacking '
'incident.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names',
'tax IDs',
'Social Security numbers',
'dates of birth',
'government-issued IDs',
'phone numbers',
'healthcare account numbers',
'balances',
'dates of service',
'ClearBalance loan numbers',
'personal banking information',
'clinical information',
'health insurance information',
'full-face photographs']},
'response': {'containment_measures': ['updating protocols for reporting '
'suspicious activities',
'changing user account passwords',
'implementing stricter access controls '
'in the cloud email environment']},
'title': 'ClearBalance Email Hacking Incident',
'type': 'Data Breach'}