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The National Board of Examiners in Optometry to Pay $3.25M Settlement in Data Breach Case

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Dissent

There’s a significant update to some data breach litigation that was revived last June. The American Optometric Association reports: The National Board of Examiners in Optometry (NBEO) will allot $3.25 million in a cash settlement fund to compensate some 61,000 victims of an alleged data breach that gripped the profession in 2016. In a court…

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St. Louis Community College’s data breach has students concerned

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Dissent

Jasmine Payoute reports: A data breach at St. Louis Community College has one student searching for some accountability after they released the personal information of nearly 4,000 students. “It’s just very frustrating of how our information was given out twice, I mean where’s the security at,” said a student who asked not to be identified….

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Verity Medical Foundation discloses third incident involving access to employees’ email accounts

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Dissent

Oh dear.  When I saw Verity Medical Foundation listed on HHS’s public breach tool this month with more than 14,000 patients impacted, I thought it might be just an updated report for the two incidents that they had disclosed in January. But no. It appears that Verity had yet another breach.  Like the first two,…

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Ohio dental insurance carrier disclosed breach involving some members’ information

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Dissent

Another day, another hack involving an employee’s email account that held protected health information?  From Superior Dental Care in Ohio: March 25, 2019 04:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time CENTERVILLE, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Superior Dental Care (SDC), a dental insurance carrier, today announced that a recent data security incident may have resulted in unauthorized access to some of…

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Supreme Court rejects Amazon’s Zappos on data breach lawsuit

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Dissent

Melissa Locker reports: In 2012, 24 million Zappos customers found out that hackers had accessed their personal information. Since then, customers have fought to sue Zappos, Amazon’s online shoe retailer, over the data breach. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal, meaning they can move forward with a class-action lawsuit against the company for…

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This Spyware Data Leak Is So Bad We Can’t Even Tell You About It

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Dissent

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: This story is part of When Spies Come Home, a Motherboard series about powerful surveillance software ordinary people use to spy on their loved ones. A company that sells consumer-grade software that lets customers spy on other people’s calls, messages, and anything they do on their cell phones left more than 95,000…

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