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Sony’s Settlement With Employees Over Hacked Data Worth More Than $5.5 Million

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Dissent

The Hollywood Reporter reports: Sony Pictures will be paying somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.5 million to $8 million to resolve a class action lawsuit over a large hack attack last winter that left the personal information of employees and ex-employees vulnerable. The details of the settlement were revealed in court papers on Monday night….

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Ark., Md. Providers Notify Patients of Health Data Breaches

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Dissent

HealthITSecurity has reports on two HIPAA breaches reported to HHS. The first involved two employees of Baptist Health and Arkansas Health Group taking information on 6,500 patients with them to their new employer, Bray Family Health. The second incident involved a laptop missing from Johns Hopkins Medicine that contained health information for 571 cancer patients and 267 study participants. You can…

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Gowdy appears to accidentally release CIA source’s name

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Dissent

Josh Gerstein reports: House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy appears to have accidentally released the name of a CIA source in the midst of a back-and-forth with Democrats about how sensitive the information was and whether its presence in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account constituted a security breach. Gowdy’s aides blamed…

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Former Silk Road Task Force Agent Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Dissent

Former Silk Road Task Force Agent Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison for Extortion, Money Laundering, and Obstruction Ex-DEA Agent Used Undercover Status to Pocket More than $700,000 in Bitcoin, Strike Movie Deal with Twentieth Century Fox SAN FRANCISCO –Carl M. Force was sentenced to 78 months in prison today for extortion, money laundering, and obstruction…

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U.S. judge dismisses Uber driver lawsuit over data breach

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Dissent

Dan Levine reports: A U.S. judge dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit filed by an Uber driver against the ride service over a data breach disclosed by the company, according to a ruling on Monday. In February, Uber revealed that as many as 50,000 of its drivers’ names and license numbers had been improperly downloaded….

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Years of poor network security at State predated a hack linked to Russia

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Dissent

Ken Dilanian of AP reports: The State Department was among the worst agencies in the federal government at protecting its computer networks while Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary from 2009 to 2013, a situation that continued to deteriorate as John Kerry took office and Russian hackers breached the department’s email system, according to independent audits…

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