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MaineGeneral Health notifying employees and patients after FBI alerts them to breach

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Dissent

A message from Chuck Hays, CEO, MaineGeneral Health December 8, 2015 Dear Valued Community Member: MaineGeneral Health and its subsidiaries (MaineGeneral Medical Center, MaineGeneral Rehabilitation and Long Term Care, MaineGeneral Retirement Community and MaineGeneral Community Care) have learned it has had a cyber attack on its computer network. On November 13, 2015, MaineGeneral was notified…

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Final notices going out this week to the 21 million people whose data was stolen in the OPM breach

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Dissent

Eric Yoder reports: The last of the notices are set to go out this week to the more than 21 million people whose personal information was stolen in a cyber breach of government security clearance files, with about 1.5 million of those having signed up so far for identity and credit monitoring services. Read more…

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Hacks, hacks, everywhere, Monday edition

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Dissent

“Rubber” (@smitt3nz on Twitter) has been busy, it seems. Here are just some of the hacks and data dumps posted in that Twitter account over the past few months. 784 users of chickencycles.co.uk had their usernames and passwords hacked and leaked. Some of the passwords were cracked and the cracks provided. 1,710 users of artrookie.co.uk had their usernames, encrypted…

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Tunecore Has Been Hacked, Sensitive Data Revealed, All User Passwords Invalidated

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Dissent

Bruce Houghton reports: Tunecore CEO Scott Ackerman sent an email to all users around midnight on Friday night that their accounts had been hacked three weeks earlier on November 17th. “We recently discovered suspicious activity on TuneCore’s servers in November,” he wrote, “and that on November 17th an individual illegally collected information from our servers.” The data stored…

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Settlement Proposed in Maricopa County Community College District Data Breach Litigation

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Dissent

NOTE: Do NOT contact me about this settlement or expect me to help you file a claim or anything. I am just a breach blogger/citizen journalist and advocate, but I am not your advocate. Do NOT post your details in comments, either. Follow the directions on the post card you received or go to http://www.mcccdclassaction.kroll.com and follow…

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AU: Pair facing 10 years jail for allegedly hacking student’s Facebook and deleting his uni enrolment data

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Dissent

Ken McGregor reports: A young man and woman who allegedly deleted a student’s university enrolment in five subjects and hacked his Facebook and email accounts face up to a decade in jail if convicted of the cybercrime. Jake Anthony Parker Davis, 21, of Port Noarlunga South, and Sarah Ruqayyah Salah, 22, of Melrose Park, have pleaded…

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