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UVA Health System Notifies 1,882 Patients About HIPAA Breach

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Dissent

WVIR reports: The University of Virginia Health System is notifying patients of a cyber attack that affected the hospital. The hacker was able to get access to private medical records for 19 months. The FBI discovered that a physician’s devices with the Health System were infected with malware, which allowed the hacker to see what…

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White and Bright Family Dental notifies patients after hackers accessed PHI

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Dissent

White and Bright Family Dental in Fresno is notifying patients of a recent hack.  In a letter dated February 16 to patients, they write: On January 30, 2018, a business computer server containing your protected health information was accessed by cyber criminals. We immediately notified the Fresno Police Department, so that identification and prosecution of…

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HardwareZone Forum hit by security breach; 685,000 user profiles affected

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Dissent

Channel NewsAsia reports: SINGAPORE: Approximately 685,000 user profiles were affected when the HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website was hit by a security breach, the site’s owner SPH Magazines said in a news release on Tuesday (Feb 20). A suspicious post on Sunday prompted an investigation to ascertain whether a security breach had occurred, the news release said. The probe…

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Roomsurf hacked?

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Dissent

The following was sent to DataBreaches.net this morning by someone claiming to have received it. Roomsurf did not respond to multiple emailed inquiries throughout the day and evening asking them to confirm or deny whether this was sent by them to members.  Roomsurf.com’s site, which currently has no notice about any breach, claims that they…

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Atos, IT provider for Winter Olympics, hacked months before Opening Ceremony cyberattack

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Dissent

Chris Bing reports: Hackers armed with destructive malware appear to have compromised the main IT service provider for the Winter Olympic Games months before last week’s highly publicized cyberattack. Publicly available evidence analyzed by experts and reviewed by CyberScoop suggests that whoever deployed the Olympic Destroyer malware on Feb. 9 likely previously penetrated a series of computer systems around December…

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Charges: State employee hacked into co-worker’s computer

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Dissent

Pat Reavy reports: A state employee was charged Wednesday with illegally getting into his co-worker’s computer, changing her Facebook password and reading her messages. Eric Brian Thompson, 42, of Farmington, is charged in 3rd District Court with computer fraud, a third-degree felony. In May of 2016, Thompson was an employee of the state of Utah,…

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