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Entergy notifies employees of W-2 breach involving TALX portal

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Dissent

So this is not a W-2 phishing situation, but TALX – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Equifax –  is working with Entergy to notify former and current Entergy employees whose 2016 W-2 data may have been acquired by criminals from the TALX portal. In a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, counsel for TALX…

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NC: Coastal Cape Fear Eye Associates notifies patients after ransomware attack

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Dissent

On February 1, Coastal Cape Fear Eye Associates in North Carolina notified HHS of a hacking incident that impacted 925 patients. Unlike many other ransomware reports where there is no clear evidence of PHI acquisition or compromise, in this incident, there was evidence of actual compromise, although no evidence of exfiltration. Here is the entity’s…

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Ex-student suspect in Mississippi State University records tampering case

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Dissent

Therese Apel reports: According to Mississippi State University officials, one former student is the target of a search warrant in an investigation into university record tampering. MSU Chief Communications Officer Sid Salter told Logan Kirkland of the Starkville Daily News that the student graduated in December. The identity of the suspect and the nature of…

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Equifax Hack Might Be Worse Than You Think

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Dissent

AnnaMaria Andriotis reports: Hackers in the Equifax Inc. breach accessed more of consumers’ personal information than the company disclosed publicly last year. Equifax said, in a document submitted to the Senate Banking Committee and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, that cyberthieves accessed records across numerous tables in its systems that included such data as…

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Voter, Bee databases hit with ransomware attack

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Dissent

Adam Ashton reports: Two Sacramento Bee databases on a third-party computer server were seized last month by an anonymous hacker who demanded The Bee pay a ransom in Bitcoin to get the data back. The intrusion, which was discovered by a Bee employee last week, exposed one database containing California voter registration data from the…

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FBI Private Industry Notification warns schools about TheDarkOverlord

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Dissent

On January 31, 2018, the FBI released a Private Industry Notification (PIN) warning schools about the hacker(s) known as TheDarkOverlord. The information in the PIN was provided by the FBI and the Department of Education’s Office of the Inspector General, and it appears to be an expanded version of a prior alert to schools issued by…

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