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MedWatch LLC notifies members whose protected health information was exposed on the internet

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Dissent

Florida-headquartered MedWatch, LLC is a care management company, providing risk management solutions to the self-funded health plan market.  On or about April 13, they started notifying their clients’ health plan members after learning that a vendor misconfiguration error had exposed protected health information between October 20, 2017 and December 15, 2017. MedWatch did not name…

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A Private Intelligence Platform, LocalBlox, Leaked 48 Million Personal Data Records

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Dissent

New from UpGuard: The UpGuard Cyber Risk Team can now confirm that a cloud storage repository containing information belonging to LocalBlox, a personal and business data search service, was left publicly accessible, exposing 48 million records of detailed personal information on tens of millions of individuals, gathered and scraped from multiple sources. This data includes…

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Mount Ida students’ records shared without their permission

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Dissent

This may be more a matter for PogoWasRight.org than this site, so I’ll cross-post it over there. Laura Krantz reports: Students and parents at Mount Ida College say they are furious because the college shared their private records with UMass Dartmouth without their permission, amid a controversial plan to shut down the college and offer…

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College Consultants’ Client Information Was Exposed on Web Servers

Posted on April 14, 2018 by Dissent

Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz reports: User names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other information belonging to independent college consultants who used CollegePlannerPro from 2015 to 2017 were freely available to anyone on web servers used by the software company. An anonymous tip sent to The Chronicle on Thursday pointed out a hyperlink that anyone could use to…

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Former Suncoast Hospital patients worried about abandoned medical records

Posted on April 14, 2018 by Dissent

Peter Bernard reports: Patients of the former Suncoast Hospital are worried bad guys may have their private information. A security guard is watching the decaying, old medical center. But it might be too late to keep personal medical records from being stolen. “My wife had three of the kids out there. And she also had cataract surgery at…

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Concerns teen being ‘railroaded’ in privacy breach to cover government slip

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Dissent

Jon Tattrie reports: Software and privacy experts say an embarrassed Nova Scotia government seems to be seeking a scapegoat, following Halifax police’s quick arrest of a 19-year-old man for accessing private documents publicly visible on a provincial website. The teenager is charged with unauthorized use of a computer, which carries a prison term of up to 10 years. “In order to break…

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