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Meta Fires Employees and Contractors for Improperly Accessing Users’ Accounts and Selling Them to Hackers

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Dissent

Daniel Kreps reports: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has fired or disciplined dozens of employees and contractors — including Meta security guards — following an internal probe that revealed they were improperly accessing users’ accounts for reasons including bribery. The Wall Street Journal reports that, for years, the employees and contractors wrongly used Facebook’s internal mechanism for helping password-forgetting…

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NY: Some internet restored after Albany schools hacked

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Dissent

News10 reports an update on the cyberattack that hit Albany schools in New York earlier this month: Students, faculty, and staff in the City School District of Albany who use Chromebooks to access the internet had their services restored on Monday. District systems and resources are still unavailable, though, for anyone using desktops or laptops,…

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Lake Charles Memorial Health system victim of cyberattack and data leak by Hive

Posted on November 16, 2022 by Dissent

On October 25, Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMH) in Louisiana received an email that began, “Ladies and gentlemen! Attention, please!  This is Hive Ransomware Team.” The remainder of the email stated that Hive had been in LCMH’s network for 12 days and had exfiltrated 270 GB of files including patient and employee data. A…

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Medibank defends decision to not pay hackers ransom for stolen data as it contacts 480,000 customers

Posted on November 16, 2022 by Dissent

Nassim Khadem and Daniel Ziffer report: Medibank’s boss says the company will begin directly communicating with nearly half a million customers whose health data is believed to have been stolen, weeks after it first became aware hackers had breached its customer database. Medibank’s chief executive David Koczkar said the company had today started communicating with…

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New York-Presbyterian Hospital discloses breach affecting 12,000 patients

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Dissent

New York-Presbyterian Hospital posted a notice on their website on November 11. The incident has not yet shown up on HHS’s public breach tool, but undoubtedly will.  Here is the description of the incident, as provided by the hospital: On September 8, 2022, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s data security monitors received an alert of suspicious activity on…

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CO: Salud Family Health breached in September, leaked in November

Posted on November 14, 2022 by Dissent

On October 5, Salud Family Health in Colorado notified HHS of a breach, but only provided a “marker” of 501 affected.  On November 4, they provided notice that said the types of information that might have been accessed or taken included in a cyberattack included: patients’ name, Social Security number, driver’s license number or Colorado…

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