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IL: Student’s DDoS attack targeted Mount Zion school district network 3 times, police say

Posted on December 6, 2018 by Dissent

Donnette Beckett and Tony Reid report: Police say a student undertook a cyber attack on the Mount Zion School District computer network to sabotage a homework assignment, causing the system to crash. Mount Zion police Lt. Mike Foster said the 18-year-old student launched the attacks using an app on his phone. Foster said the first…

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Twelve US states join for the first time to file multistate data breach lawsuit

Posted on December 6, 2018 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu has a good write-up about the multistate lawsuit against Medical Informatics that I noted earlier this week: Attorneys general from twelve US states have joined together to file the first-ever joint cross-state HIPAA lawsuit against a healthcare provider that got hacked in the summer of 2015. The lawsuit, filed in an Indiana court…

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SD Calif. Dismisses Data Security Breach Class Action Against Mortgage Company

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Dissent

Christopher P. Hahn. writes: The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California recently dismissed a consumer’s putative class action lawsuit against a mortgage lending and servicing company for purported damages sustained as a result of a security breach wherein his personal information was compromised, and the hackers attempted to open credit cards in…

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Florida contractor physicians’ group settles HHS claims after they failed to have a BA agreement in place with a vendor who had a breach

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Dissent

There is a follow-up to a 2014 breach reported on this site at the time. But it turns out there was an interesting twist to this case that HHS followed up. Here is their press release: Advanced Care Hospitalists PL (ACH) has agreed to pay $500,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the…

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California-based professional employer organization hacked by TheDarkOverlord; thousands of employees’ files stolen

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Dissent

TheDarkOverlord (TDO) has been busy, it seems. In the past month or so, the hackers – who have seemingly managed to continue to evade capture by law enforcement – have revealed a number of hacks never previously disclosed by them. Earlier today, DataBreaches.net reported on TDO’s hack of Caribbean Island Properties. But at the same…

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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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