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Six months after TheDarkOverlord attacked their district, School District 6 sends breach notification letters to parents

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Dissent

More than six months after the hacker or hackers known as TheDarkOverlord hacked and terrorized School District 6 in Columbia Falls, Montana, the district has sent parents breach notification letters revealing what they were able – and not able – to determine. Three versions of the March 19th letter, marked “Draft” and signed by Superintendent…

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Expedia’s Orbitz says 880,000 payment cards hit in breach

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Orbitz, a subsidiary of online travel agency Expedia Inc (EXPE.O), said on Tuesday that hackers may have accessed personal information from about 880,000 payment cards. The unit said an investigation showed that the breach may have occurred between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 22, 2017 for its partner platform and between Jan. 1,…

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NY: Finger Lakes Health dealing with ransomware attack (Corrected)

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Dissent

WHEC  reports that Finger Lakes Health  is functioning the old-fashioned way while its computer system remains locked up by an unspecified type of ransomware: The agency said that an outside party is demanding payment to let it access its files. The agency was notified of the breach around midnight Sunday. Officials at Finger Lakes Health say…

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Public Notification of Data Breaches: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Dissent

John Amabile and Micheal Binns of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein write: A change in emphasis in disputes over data security breaches is coming. To date, the focus has been on issues and potential damages arising from the breach itself and the subsequent loss of private, personal information. In light of recognized delays from both…

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Florida Virtual School database now uploaded to HaveIBeenPwned

Posted on March 17, 2018 by Dissent

From Troy Hunt, an aid to parents who want to check if their email address or their child’s email address was in a leaked database: New breach: The Florida Virtual School had 368k student records with 543k email addresses exposed including names, grades and dates of birth. It’s flagged as “sensitive” due to the prevalence…

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IA: Primary Health Care notifies patients after discovering hack of employee email accounts

Posted on March 17, 2018 by Dissent

From their press release, issued yesterday: Primary Health Care Inc. (“PHC”) is providing notice of an incident that occurred at PHC and may affect the security of protected health information of certain PHC patients.  While PHC is unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of the information, this notice contains details about the incident and…

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