Community First Medical Center (CFMC) is a medical and nursing facility that serves Chicagoland and Illinois broadly. They employ over 300 individuals who preside over a 299-bed hospital campus. Originally named Our Lady of the Resurrection Hospital, CFMC provides community-focused healthcare, diagnostics, and treatments. If you have received services from CFMC, your private information might have been stolen in a recent data breach.

HCA Healthcare is a national and international healthcare service provider. Their services span over 180 hospitals and thousands of clinics across 20 states. They also offer services in the United Kingdom called HCA UK. Around the world, more than 290,000 people work for HCA; their payrolls include the staff of surgery and urgent care centers, imaging and physician clinics, and more. Back in July, HCA Healthcare suffered a hack exposing the data of more than 11 million Americans.

Darkbeam is a top-performing cyber vulnerability and threat management provider with less than 25 employees. The company has reported over $1 million of revenue in recent years, with numbers as high as $5 million. Their recent acquisition by ApexAnalytics will hopefully increase these statistics, but numbers mean nothing if Darkbeam cannot rebuild its reputation. Darkbeam is the most recent company to suffer over 3 billion records stolen during a data breach.

Detroit is Michigan’s largest city, hosting a population of more than 630,000 people. The area is called “Motor City” for its contributions to the automobile industry in the 1950s. More than 2.8 million cars belong to Detroit residents—and gas prices have reached a $3.72 gallon average. More cars are on the roads than ever before, but the cost of running them is taking its toll.

Nuance Communications is a Microsoft-owned software solutions provider employing more than 6,500 people. Nuance controls industry-defining AI, which professionals may use to fully automate tasks, such as entering and manipulating medical records. Many of Nuance’s clients are hospitals, clinics, and health centers in the southeast of the US; those who have received medical services in these areas are now at risk following the most recent MOVEit data breach.

Brady Martz & Associates is an accounting firm in Crookston, Minnesota. The company offers audits, business valuation, forensic accounts, employee benefit plans, and more. The company has more than 270 employees and generates over $63 million in assets annually. The organization maintains extensive data files for a large number of individuals, and those customers are at risk because the firm recently suffered from a data breach.

Data breaches are a huge challenge that modern organizations must deal with today. This week, we learned of several education-related breaches, as well as a few financial breaches. The National Student Clearinghouse and Lakeland Community College in Ohio were both hit with serious data breaches. There were also breaches with BMO Bank, the Brady Martz & Associates Accounting firm, and the Delta Dental of California health insurance provider.

BMO Bank is the 8th largest bank in the United States, employing over 12,000 individuals. The bank manages more than $3 Billion in annual reserves and works with a huge number of customers as it has over 1,000 physical locations across the country. BMO Bank is based in Chicago, Illinois, but has locations throughout the country. If you bank with BMO, your data may be at risk, because the organization was recently hacked and lost a significant amount of customer data.

Lakeland Community College is a public school located in Lake County, Ohio. The school serves approximately 8,700 students at one time and provides over 135 different associate degrees and technical certificates. The school has more than 900 employees and generates over $104 million in revenue annually. Over many years the school serves tens of thousands of students, which means that it's processing and storing a substantial amount of information.

Delta Dental of California is a major dental insurance provider throughout one of the largest states in the US. The company is well-known for offering PPO dental insurance policies and other varieties of dental insurance options. The company was founded in 1955 and serves millions of Americans throughout nearly all of the 50 states. All California residents using Delta Dental may have been impacted by a recent data breach that could cause real problems for them.