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AU: Taxpayer records exposed by serious ATO, myGov security flaw

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Dissent

Hannah Francis reports: Australians’ private tax records were left unsecured thanks to a serious flaw in how the tax office’s online services connect with myGov, in the latest of a series of security bungles related to the federal government’s online services. Experts have raised concerns over the handling of IT security issues by the Australian Taxation Office and…

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Suit accuses Georgia of massive data breach involving 6 million voters (updated)

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Dissent

Kristina Torres reports: Two Georgia women have filed a class action lawsuit alleging a massive data breach by Secretary of State Brian Kemp involving the Social Security numbers and other private information of more than six million voters statewide. The suit, filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court, alleges Kemp’s office released the information including…

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Hackers Leak Brazilian Army’s Data for Foul Play in Cyber War Games

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Dissent

Carolina reports: Earlier this week the servers of Brazilian Army got hacked leading to private details of around 7,000 military officials getting stolen. Hackers were quick to publish the hacked private data, which included national insurance numbers and IDs/passwords used for accessing official military websites along with other details. The attack on its servers was…

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U. Cincinnati Medical Center email errors affect 1,064 patients

Posted on November 14, 2015 by Dissent

Joe Rosemeyer reports: More than 1,000 patients of UC Health may have had their private information exposed, all because of an email address mixup. The mistake — two letters switched in an email domain name (the part after the @ sign) — happened nine times starting in August 2014, spokeswoman Diana Lara said late Friday…

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NC: DHHS discloses second Medicaid data breach

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Dissent

WRAL reports that the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services has had a second breach involving hundreds of Medicaid patients. It was the second time in as many months that an employee error involving unencrypted e-mail resulted in exposure of patient information.  This time, the breach reportedly affected 524 patients. Officials said they have installed…

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NJ: Personal records left unprotected at shuttered Brisbane center

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Dissent

Mike Davis reports: Inside the former Arthur Brisbane Child Treatment Center sat piles of cardboard boxes, turning the former psychiatric hospital into a makeshift storage facility. The files contained within run the gamut of both state employees and Brisbane patients, including personal information such as social security numbers, medical history and banking information. The only problem? The…

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