UC-Irvine breaks radio silence on the Accellion data breach to tell us that there is continued radio silence. The Irvine official newspaper reminds us of litigation of an earlier UC data breach in 2015 that resulted in litigation. And it tells us that no one knows whether UC plans any litigation this time:
UCLA Health was victim to a network breach compromising 4.5 million patients in 2015. UCLA began investigating suspicious activity in conjunction with the FBI in October 2014, and officially determined that the network containing personal information of UCLA Health affiliates was compromised on May 5, 2015. Social security numbers, health care information and other personal information were also compromised at the time.
Similar to UC’s offer with Experian IdentityWorks, UCLA also offered affected individuals a financed year long subscription to an identity protection service, MyIDCare.
Class action complaints were filed against the Regents of the University of California on July 24, 2015. The legal suit resulted in a settlement agreement in which UCLA agreed to pay $7.5 million in claims, purposing $5.5 million to new network security improvements and $2 million to class action claims.
According to a FAQ posted on the UCnet website, UC is working with local and federal law enforcement and third-party vendors to investigate the data breach. As of April 26, no litigation plans have been officially announced.
Maybe radio silence will be broken at the next regents meeting. Blog readers will know the regents had a secret briefing about this issue.* Stay tuned:
or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikaes-rBO4Y
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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2021/04/radio-silence-on-accellion-breach-part-5.html
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PS: Too bad Accellion never hired Kaminsky. Now it's too late. See:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/technology/daniel-kaminsky-dead.html
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