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6 Class Actions: Lawyers Across the Country Move Quickly After Hospital Data Breach

Posted on February 26, 2023 by Dissent

Charles Toutant reports: A New Jersey hospital has been hit with six class action suits after hackers obtained patient information in a data breach. CentraState Medical Center allegedly failed to take adequate precautions to prevent such attacks, and then compounded the error by waiting six weeks to notify plaintiffs and class members about the breach,…

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Minneapolis Public Schools tap dances around telling parents and employees what really happened

Posted on February 25, 2023 by Dissent

The bar has been lowered. Which bar, you wonder? The bar for how low entities will sink rather than just saying they experienced a ransomware attack. Becky Z. Dernbach reports:   Minneapolis Public Schools will open for in-person instruction as usual Monday, after a week of disruptions from “technical difficulties” and snow. In an email to…

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In updated disclosure, News Corp says state hackers were on its network for two years

Posted on February 25, 2023 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports: Mass media and publishing giant News Corporation (News Corp) says that attackers behind a breach disclosed in 2022 first gained access to its systems two years before, in February 2020. This was revealed in data breach notification letters sent to employees affected by the data breach, who had some of their personal and health information…

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Jump crypto & Oasis recover over $225 million stolen in Wormhole hack via court authorized counter-exploit

Posted on February 25, 2023 by Dissent

Lacton Muriuki reports: Jump Crypto, a provider of Web3 infrastructure and the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Oasis.app has carried out a “counter exploit” on the Wormhole protocol hacker, recovering $225 million worth of digital assets and moving them to a secure wallet. A flaw in the protocol’s token bridge allowed the Wormhole assault, which took…

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Alleged ‘SIM Swapper’ Charged with Hacking into Instagram Influencers’ Accounts to Get Money and Sexually Explicit Video Chats

Posted on February 25, 2023 by Dissent

LOS ANGELES, FEBRUARY 23 – A Downtown Los Angeles man was charged today in a six-count federal grand jury indictment for allegedly defrauding female social media influencers, including by engaging in “SIM swapping” to hijack their Instagram accounts and obtain money from them and engage in sexually explicit video chats with him. Amir Hossein Golshan, 24,…

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Misconfiguration caused data breach affecting Stanford University PhD applicants

Posted on February 25, 2023 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports: Stanford University disclosed a data breach after files containing Economics Ph.D. program admission information were downloaded from its website between December 2022 and January 2023. Last week, the university sent data breach notification letters to 897 individuals who submitted personal and health information as part of the graduate application to its Department of Economics,…

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