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20,000 Utah Valley Eye Center patients may have had information hacked after HIPAA breach

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Dissent

Braley Dodson reports: Demographic information for more than 20,000 patients could have been accessed after Utah Valley Eye Center was hacked last year, according to the center. The Provo business’s portal was hacked on June 18, 2018, and an email was sent to 5,764 patients disguised as a notification from PayPal telling the patients they…

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Rep. Katie Hill’s husband claimed his computer was ‘hacked’ before her private photos appeared online, report says

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Dissent

Yelena Dzhanova and Dan Mangan report: Rep. Katie Hill, who is resigning her seat in Congress following disclosure of actual and alleged romantic relationships with subordinates, is set to give a final House floor speech Thursday — as two reports raise new questions about the possible role the California Democrat’s estranged husband played in her…

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Hack of Chilean national police exposes more than 10,000 files, including intelligence

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Dissent

I’m going to have to use a Google translation for this one as my Spanish is rusty, but Nicolás Sepúlveda reports on ciperchile.cl about repeated hacks of the Carabineros de Chile, the Chilean national police. The hacks are part of the ongoing political unrest and activism in the country. Sepúlveda reports that CIPER has reviewed…

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2 Plead Guilty in 2016 Uber and Lynda.com Hacks

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Dissent

Mike Isaac reports: Two men pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose, Calif., to charges of computer hacking and an extortion conspiracy on Wednesday, capping a thorny legal saga that ensnared tech companies like Uber and LinkedIn in data breach scandals. The resolution of the case comes as Americans grapple with theft and misuse…

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Former Senate Aide Gets Probation For Helping Dox Republicans Over Kavanaugh Hearings

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Dissent

Bobby Allyn reports: A former Democratic Senate staffer was sentenced to two years of probation this week for helping another onetime staff member break into a Senate office late at night to hack government computers. Their actions exposed the private information of five Republican senators, in an act of retaliation for their support of Brett…

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Important Security Information from Register.com

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Dissent

From the FAQ on their site: Frequently Asked Questions What happened?On October 16, 2019, Register.com determined that a third-party gained unauthorized access to a limited number of our computer systems in late August 2019, and as a result, account information may have been accessed. No credit card data was compromised as a result of this…

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