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Attorney General James Secures $975,000 from Auto Insurance Company over Data Breach

Posted on March 23, 2025March 22, 2025 by Dissent

From a March 20 press release from NY Attorney General Letitia James: NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $975,000 in penalties from Root, an auto insurance company, for failing to protect the personal information of approximately 45,000 New Yorkers. The data breach was part of an industry-wide campaign to steal consumers’…

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No need to hack when it’s leaking: OrthoMinds edition

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Dissent

Exposed database backups discovered and reported by researcher @JayelTee are now being reported in more mainstream news after OrthoMinds issued a press about the incident. Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A vendor of cloud-based orthodontic practice software is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that their data was exposed to the internet for 10 days last…

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Watsonville Community Hospital still hasn’t notified all those affected by a November data breach; employees are reporting tax refund fraud

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Dissent

Felix Cortez reports: Just months after Watsonville Community Hospital was hit by a cyber-attack, roughly 20 employees at the hospital now say they’re the victims of identity theft. “We heard from a few of our employees that they reported there were fraudulent tax filings in their name, so someone else had tried to file a…

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What is WikiLeaksV2 doing with a ransomware gang? Spoiler alert: It’s not extortion.

Posted on March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 by Dissent

As previously reported on this site, in September 2023, Cardiovascular Consultants Ltd. (CVC) in Arizona experienced a ransomware attack. In October 2023, the Qilin ransomware group added CVC to its leak site, claiming to have exfiltrated 520,961 files and 206 GB of data. And in December 2023, CVC announced the breach in a substitute notice…

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Appellate court upholds sentence for former Uber cyber executive Joe Sullivan

Posted on March 16, 2025March 15, 2025 by Dissent

Jonathan Greig reports: The conviction of former Uber chief security officer Joe Sullivan on obstruction of justice charges was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California this week after the cybersecurity expert disputed several aspects of his sentence and charges. Sullivan was given three years probation by a U.S….

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Breach notifications needed to be made faster in 2024. Instead, they were made more slowly.

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Dissent

Although some members of the public may not realize it, not all U.S. medical practices or practitioners are covered by HIPAA. But for entities that are regulated by HIPAA, HIPAA has some requirements for notifying patients about reportable breaches. The first thing to understand is that for regulated entities, a breach is considered “discovered” on…

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