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Health Insurer Pays $6.85 Million to Settle Data Breach Affecting Over 10.4 Million People

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Dissent

HHS has announced another big settlement and corrective action plan.  This one stems from a hack of Premera Blue Cross (PBC) in 2014 that went undetected until March of 2015.  DataBreaches.net had covered this incident at the time and the follow-ups that included a class action lawsuit that settled, a settlement with state attorneys general,…

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CISA says a hacker breached a federal agency

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker has gained access and exfiltrated data from a federal agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said on Thursday. The name of the hacked federal agency, the date of the intrusion, or any details about the intruder, such as an industry codename or state affiliation, were not disclosed. Read…

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OH: Stark Summit Ambulance notified patients and employees of data breach

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Dissent

Ohio-based Stark Summit Ambulance has disclosed a data security incident impacting employees and patients. On May 28, 2020, the firm learned of unusual activity involving one Stark Summit Ambulance employee email account.  Over the next few months, as they continued investigating, they discovered more employee email accounts that had been compromised.  By the end of July,…

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Member of thedarkoverlord sentenced to 60 months and $1.4 million in restitution

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Dissent

The first — and so far, only — person to have been arrested and charged as a member of “thedarkoverlord” pleaded guilty today in federal court in Missouri. Nathan Francis Wyatt, 39, of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire in the U.K. was sentenced by Judge Judge Ronnie L. White to 60 months in prison and almost $1.5 million…

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Athens Orthopedic Clinic Pays $1.5 Million to Settle HHS Charges of Systemic Noncompliance with HIPAA Rules

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Dissent

From HHS, a settlement notice involving one of thedarkoverlord’s victims. Athens Orthopedic Clinic is still facing a lawsuit from patients that made it all the way up to the Georgia Supreme Court on the issue of whether they had demonstrated enough harm to survive a motion to dismiss. Note: This blogger is the journalist referenced…

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Activision Accounts Hacked? 500,000 Call Of Duty Players Could Be Affected—Report

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Dissent

Update: The accuracy of these claims has been called into question.  See Activision dismisses claims of data breach compromising 500k CoD accounts. Davey Winder reports: According to reports, more than 500,000 Activision accounts may have been hacked with login data being compromised. The eSports site Dexerto has reported that a data breach occurred on Sunday, September 20….

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