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TheDarkOverlord names the Farmington victim and releases data

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Dissent

One of the other up-for-sale health databases that DataBreaches.net reported on on Sunday was a facility in Farmington, Missouri. It was described as a “Healthcare Database (48,000 Patients) from Farmington, Missouri, United States.” Yesterday, after investigating the sample and other information, DataBreaches.net reached out to the Midwest Orthopedic Pain & Spine clinic owned by Dr….

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Atlanta orthopedic group investigating whether they are TheDarkOverlord’s victim

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Dissent

On Sunday, DataBreaches.net reported on healthcare databases that are up for sale on the darknet in the RealDealMarket. The seller is “TheDarkOverlord,” who provided descriptions of the databases and samples, but did not name the victim entities. In a number of encrypted chats with the hacker since then, DataBreaches.net obtained additional information about the identity of…

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OPM breach NOT bigger than previously admitted (CORRECTED)

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Dissent

CORRECTION: An alert reader notified this site that NextGov had goofed in reporting that OPM had recently revealed that the breach was larger than previously reported. NextGov has retracted that part of their story and issued an Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: The original version of this article erroneously stated that the Office of Personnel Management  had acknowledged for…

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264,000 and counting: Hack of EHR/EMR vendor leaves clients scrambling

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Dissent

What data security incident currently holds the undesirable status of 2016’s largest incident involving patient data that has been reported to HHS?*  There’s a good chance you’ve never heard about it because the company has remained publicly mute. San Jose-based Bizmatics, Inc. designs and markets electronic health record and electronic medical records practice management software…

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Hacker who stole $50G from George Soros’ foundation sentenced up to six years in prison

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Dissent

Lauren Klose and Reuven Blau report: The computer hacker who stole $50,000 from a nonprofit run by George Soros was sentenced Monday to up to six years in prison. Computer expert David Kupratis, 31, of Parlin, N.J. twice assumed another person’s identity and then filched a laptop computer and cellphone from a third person in…

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Lording it over the healthcare sector: health insurer database with 9.3M entries up for sale

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Dissent

As if yesterday’s news that three databases with 655,000 patients’ records were up for sale on TheRealDeal by “TheDarkOverlord” wasn’t disturbing enough, today they’ve listed a database with 9.3 million records from an unnamed U.S. health insurer. The listing sets a retail price of 750 BTC, which is almost $500,000.00, and the seller describes it this…

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