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Feds warned Premera about security flaws before breach

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Dissent

Mike Baker reports: Three weeks before hackers infiltrated Premera Blue Cross, federal auditors warned the company that its network-security procedures were inadequate. Officials gave 10 recommendations for Premera to fix problems, saying some of the vulnerabilities could be exploited by hackers and expose sensitive information. Premera received the audit findings April 18 last year, according…

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Senators blast Anthem for ‘unacceptable’ response after data breach

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Dissent

Sarah Ferris reports: Leaders of the Senate’s health committee are accusing insurer giant Anthem of failing to inform millions of people who may have been affected by a massive data breach last month. Committee chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and ranking member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Wednesday that 50 million customers who may have been impacted…

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Ca: Education ministry notifies police after website security breached and private email addresses obtained

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Dissent

Last week, Ontario’s Ministry of Education reported that 5,000 Ontarians’ e-mail addresses had been acquired and leaked from its web site. The data were dumped on Pastebin, in a post that is no longer available. Today, the Brampton Guardian reports: The government said it has notified the Ontario Provincial Police and the Office of the…

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As threatened, Rex Mundi dumps Labio patients’ diagnostic test results

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Dissent

As they had threatened to do if Labio did not pay them €20,000, the hacker collective known as Rex Mundi has started dumping/disclosing identifiable patient data. The dump was announced on Twitter by the @RexMundi2015 account. DataBreaches.net confirmed that the records appear to be the results of lab tests performed on patients whose names, dates…

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13 acquitted in case of Turkish hacker group Redhack

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Dissent

Today’s Zaman reports: A total of 13 suspects accused of acting with the Turkish hacker group redhack were acquitted by an Ankara court on Monday. Murat Yılmaz, the head of the Ankara branch of the Contemporary Lawyers Association said while speaking to the media on the ruling, “The court ruling proved wrong the claim that…

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WA: Student hacker disables hundreds of email accounts

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Dissent

KOMO News reports that an unnamed high school student who attends Oak Harbor High School is in trouble for disabling hundreds of email accounts throughout the Oak Harbor School District. “This individual inappropriately obtained passwords to certain accounts,” said Kellie Tormey, Oak Harbor School District. A somewhat surprising aspect to the report is a statement by an…

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