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Emails of top House GOP officials stolen in major 2018 hack

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Dissent

Alex Isenstadt and John Bresnahan report: The House GOP campaign arm suffered a major hack during the 2018 election, exposing thousands of sensitive emails to an outside intruder, according to three senior party officials. The email accounts of four senior aides at the National Republican Congressional Committee were surveilled for several months, the party officials…

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Medical Informatics sued by multiple states over 2015 breach

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Dissent

A 2015 hack of Medical Informatics stayed in the headlines for quite a while because it compromised the data, including health information, of 3.9 million people.  In addition to suits filed by consumers, state attorneys general have also sued the business associate, as Dave Gong reports: Fort Wayne-based Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. failed to secure…

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A popular Q&A website says hackers stole information on 100 million users

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Dissent

Saheli Roy Choudhury reports: Quora, the popular question-and-answer website, said Monday evening that hackers broke into one of its systems and compromised information from approximately 100 million users. CEO Adam D’Angelo said in a blog post the company discovered last week that a malicious third party had gained unauthorized access to one of its systems….

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Misconfigured Locksmith Services web servers exposed sensitive information

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Dissent

Darryl Burke reports: On Wed Nov 23rd, we discovered a misconfiguration on the web servers of the company “Locksmith Services” which is a US based national dispatch service for Locksmiths. The misconfiguration on the website dispatchlogin.net exposed the; audio recording of calls, emails, customer contact information, photos of drivers licenses and passports, photos of credit…

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IA: Data breach found in city of Ames’ parking ticket payment system. It’s Click2Gov, again.

Posted on December 1, 2018 by Dissent

The Ames Tribune reports on yet another breach report involving Click2Gov (by CentralSquare Technologies): A data breach to the city’s parking ticket payment system may have affected 4,600 customers who paid a city-issued ticket on the city’s online payment system between Aug. 10 and Nov. 19, city officials said Friday in a news release. […]…

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San Mateo Medical Center notifies patients after records erroneously recycled instead of shredded

Posted on December 1, 2018 by Dissent

Updated Feb. 22, 2019.  DataBreaches.net was notified that HHS had finally removed the disputed listing from their portal.  But when I checked, I found that it had not really been removed.  OCR had closed its case and moved the entry to its archived  list, with the following note: On November 13, 2018, OCR received a…

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