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Surgeon believes hackers ‘led warplanes to Syrian hospital’ after targeting his computer after remote surgery

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Dissent

This is the stuff nightmares are made of. Hayley Dixon, Aisha Majid, and Steven Swinford report: A British surgeon who helped carry out operations in Aleppo fears that the hacking of his computer led to a hospital being bombed by suspected Russian warplanes. In a world first, renowned consultant David Nott gave remote instructions via…

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OCR investigating Banner Health’s 2016 data breach

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Dissent

Evan Sweeney reports: Already fending off a class-action lawsuit, Banner Health is also the subject of an ongoing federal investigation into a June 2016 cyberattack that exposed patient data. The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched an investigation in the aftermath of the attack that exposed data for 3.7…

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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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UK: Hackers possibly in the U.S. target more than 400 schools with bomb hoax

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Dissent

Camilla Turner and Helena Horton report: American hackers targeted more than 400 schools with a bomb hoax, as more than a dozen police forces across the country launch investigations. Many schools sent urgent messages to parents asking them to pick their children up on Monday morning and drew up emergency evacuation plans, after receiving an email which…

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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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