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Baton Rouge police database ‘hacked’ in retaliation for killing of Alton Sterling

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Dissent

Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: Just days after the fatal shooting of a black man by Baton Rouge police prompted international outrage and a Justice Department investigation, the Baton Rouge city government’s servers have been “hacked” and 50,000 city police records leaked online including names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers. A hacker named @0x2Taylor claimed responsibility…

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California Health Care Facility email gaffe results in notifications

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Dissent

California Health Care Facility, which is part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, is notifying an unspecified number of people that their names and Social Security numbers were erroneously emailed to an unauthorized recipient in an attached document on May 2.  The erroneous email was subsequently deleted from the server.

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Still ignoring the smaller paper breaches? Stop.

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Dissent

Add this to your “small breaches, big impact” analyses. As seen on the New Zealand Herald: A doctor’s office disclosed a patient’s childhood abuse when a letter was sent to the person’s neighbour accidentally. The incident happened when the patient told their GP about past abuse, who referred them on to counselling to help work…

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Planned Parenthood: Potential Patient Records Breach in Dubuque

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Dissent

On May 6, 2016, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland discovered a potential breach of patients’ personal health information. Hard copy patient records from August 1, 2008 – April 30, 2014 may have been accessed by unauthorized parties during the April 2016 closure and subsequent sale of our Dubuque health care center. This potential breach is…

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Order of Malta breach contains unhashed gov’t credentials

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Dissent

Jeremy Seth Davis reports: A white hat researcher discovered a pair of data breaches in which email and password credentials of government employees were dumped on Pastebin. Hackers dumped almost 4,000 credentials gained during two separate breaches that contained credentials linked to U.S. and Ukrainian government employees. The attackers breached a website affiliated with the…

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AU: TeleChoice forced to compensate customers over 2014 data breach

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Dissent

Sometimes by the time a case is resolved, I’ve forgotten what it was. I’m old, I forget. Thankfully, I can check the archives of this site to see if I had covered it before. Happily for me, I had covered this one, which involved TeleChoice somewhat stunningly leaving consumers’ personal information in a shipping container…

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