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Magnolia Pediatrics notifies patients of a security incident after OCR tells them it’s reportable

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Dissent

Almost one year after Magnolia Pediatrics notified 11,000 patients about a ransomware attack on an unnamed IT vendor, they are now notifying more than 12,000 patients of another attack. This time, they wound up firing their vendor. According to a notification on their web site, on March 26, the Magnolia Pediatrics discovered a security incident….

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It takes hackers 1 minute to find and abuse credentials exposed on GitHub

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Dissent

Paul Bischoff reports on an issue DataBreaches.net and Jelle Ursem recently reported on: data being exposed because of code left in public repositories on GitHub (see our report about exposed protected health information in No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking). Bischoff writes that Comparitech researchers sought to find out how long it took hackers…

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Anthem agrees to pay $39.5M in latest settlement over 2015 hacking

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Dissent

John Russell reports: Anthem Inc. has agreed to pay a group of states $39.5 million to settle claims the health insurer failed to safeguard its data, a breach that led to a massive computer hacking in 2015 that compromised the private information of 78.8 million customers and former customers. The Indianapolis-based company announced the settlement…

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Yevgeniy Nikulin sentenced to 88 months for hacks of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring

Posted on September 29, 2020 by Dissent

More than two years after he was extradited from the Czech Republic where he was arrested in 2016 for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring, Russian national Yevgeniy Nikulin was sentenced today to 88 months by Judge William Alsup in federal court in northern California. Nikulin, also known as “Chinabig01,” “dex.007, ” “valeriy.krutov3, and “itBlackHat,” had…

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The Cyber-Avengers Protecting Hospitals From Ransomware

Posted on September 29, 2020 by Dissent

Sonner Kehrt has an article on CTI that begins: It was early February when Ohad Zaidenberg first started noticing malicious emails and files disguised as information about Covid. He’s a cyber intelligence researcher based in Israel, and they were the sort of schemes he encountered all the time—benign-looking messages that trick people into giving someone network…

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Major U.S. hospital system hit by ransomware

Posted on September 28, 2020 by Dissent

Kevin Collier reports: A major hospital chain has been hit by what appears to be one of the largest medical cyberattacks in United States history. Computer systems for Universal Health Services, which has more than 400 locations, primarily in the U.S., began to fail over the weekend, and some hospitals have had to resort to filing…

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