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Dark Web Price Index 2021

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Dissent

Information in this report reflects data collected on May 9, 2021 and reported by Privacy Affairs.  They report their methodology was to: “scan dark web marketplaces, forums, and websites, to create an index of the average prices for a range of specific products.” Their findings are also compared to what they found in 2020. You…

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WI: Governor Evers Signs Law to Enhance Insurance Cybersecurity Measures

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Dissent

July, 15 — Madison, Wis. — Today, Governor Tony Evers signed Act 73 into law creating new cybersecurity requirements for protecting data collected by the insurance industry. “From ransomware to data breaches, insurers and consumers are at an increasing risk of experiencing a serious cybersecurity incident,” said Insurance Commissioner Mark Afable. “The new consumer protections in this Act…

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Ransomware attack at Comparis resulted in data breach

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Dissent

SwissInfo.ch reports: Last Wednesday Comparis.ch, which has 80 million visits a year, was shut down by ransomware attackers demanding $400,000 (CHF370,000) in cryptocurrencies to put it back online. By Friday the website was operational again. A Comparis spokesman told SWI swissinfo.ch that no ransom had been paid. The company initially said it believed that no customer…

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UK: Nottingham nurse accessed confidential records of online dating matches

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Dissent

Ben Cooper reports: A nurse who accessed confidential medical records including those of people she met online dating has been allowed to continue working by a disciplinary panel. Helen Kirkpatrick, a former paediatric nurse in Nottingham, accessed 28 different patient medical records without clinical reasons for doing so over a period of 16 months between…

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An insurtech startup exposed thousands of sensitive insurance applications

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: A security lapse at insurance technology startup BackNine exposed hundreds of thousands of insurance applications after one of its cloud servers was left unprotected on the internet. BackNine might be a company you’re not familiar with, but it might have processed your personal information if you applied for insurance in the past…

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TX: Thousands of employees and dependents of Whitehouse ISD just had their data dumped on the dark web

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Dissent

School districts continue to be low-hanging fruit for threat actors.  While Grief threat actors hacked and then dumped data from Clover Park School District in Washington, Booneville School District in Mississippi, and Lancaster ISD in Texas, Vice Society hacked and then dumped data from Whitehouse ISD, also in Texas. On June 28, DataBreaches.net emailed Whitehouse…

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