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Hacker leaks millions of new 23andMe genetic data profiles

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: A hacker has leaked an additional 4.1 million stolen 23andMe genetic data profiles for people in Great Britain and Germany on a hacking forum. Earlier this month, a threat actor leaked the stolen data of 1 million Ashkenazi Jews who used 23andMe services to find their ancestry info and genetic predispositions. 23andMe told BleepingComputer…

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UPDATE: D.C. Board of Elections data breach contained fewer than 4,000 D.C. voters’ data

Posted on October 18, 2023October 12, 2024 by Dissent

On October 6, DataBreaches reported a breach allegedly containing more than 600,000 lines of data on registered voters in D.C., where, according to the threat actors who listed it, each line represented one voter’s records. Although there may have been 600k lines of data as previously reported, the D.C. Board of Elections released a statement…

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Inmediata settles multi-state litigation for $1.14 million; will improve data security and breach notification practices

Posted on October 18, 2023 by Dissent

Indiana Attorney General Rokita led a coalition of 33 attorneys general in a multi-state investigation and litigation against health care clearinghouse Imnediata stemming from a breach disclosed in 2019. Background In January 2019, HHS OCR alerted Inmediata that protected health information (PHI) maintained by Inmediata was available online and had been indexed by search engines….

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Kansas courts to operate on paper for at least 2 weeks due to “unauthorized incursion” into system (1)

Posted on October 16, 2023 by Dissent

Cameron Burnett reports: Court systems throughout Kansas, including Sedgwick County, will likely be operating on paper for the next two weeks, at the minimum. Kansas Judge Phil Journey says it looks like there has been an “unauthorized incursion” into the brand-new statewide computer system and it will be down for at least two weeks, affecting all…

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Justice department wants to fight R5 million fine over ransomware attack in court

Posted on October 11, 2023 by Dissent

Myles Illidge reports: The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) is taking the Information Regulator to court to appeal the R5 million fine the agency slapped it with after falling prey to a ransomware attack in 2021, TechCentral reports. Departmental spokesperson Steven Mahlangu reportedly said the court application was issued on 29 September 2023…

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Ca: NL Health Services Reveals Pediatrics Privacy Breach

Posted on October 7, 2023 by Dissent

VOCM reports: NL Health Services has another privacy breach on its hands. The news came quietly in a news release sent out just after 5:30 Friday evening. The breach is related to an email sent to the parents and guardians of 253 pediatric patients with diabetes. Officials say “the recipients of that email were inadvertently…

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