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American Medical Collection Agency breach impacted 200,000 patients – Gemini Advisory

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Dissent

A data breach involving a medical collection agency affected more than 200,000 patients who had used the firm’s online payment portal between September, 2018 and the beginning of March, 2019. At the end of February, Gemini Advisory analysts identified a Card Not Present (CNP) database that had been posted for sale in a dark web…

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Member of Sophisticated China-Based Hacking Group Indicted for Series of Computer Intrusions, Including 2015 Data Breach of Health Insurer Anthem Inc. Affecting Over 78 Million People

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Dissent

More than four years from hack to indictment. How many more until they actually have the alleged hackers in custody? From the U.S. Department of Justice, this press release today: A federal grand jury returned an indictment unsealed today in Indianapolis, Indiana, charging a Chinese national as part of an extremely sophisticated hacking group operating…

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Database With Millions of Indian Personal Records Exposed and Hijacked

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Dissent

Bob Diachenko writes: On May 1st, I have discovered an unprotected and publicly indexed MongoDB database which contained 275,265,298 records with personal identifiable information (PII) on Indian citizens, including the following fields: Name Email Gender Education level and area of speciazliation Professional skills / functional area Mobile phone number Employment history and current employer Date of…

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Spectrum Health Lakeland notifies patients after billing vendor breach

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Dissent

I’m not finding anything on their web site just yet, but Spectrum Health Lakeland has reportedly been notifying patients about a breach involving their billing provider, OS Inc.  WSJM reports that the health system learned of the breach on March 8 after an OS employee’s email account containing patient information was accessed without authorization. The information…

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2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is Out

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Dissent

This year, Verizon’s DBIR  is based on data from 41,686 security incidents and 2,013 data breaches provided by 73 data sources, both public and private entities, spanning 86 countries worldwide. You can read the Executive Summary here, or read the full report here. There are some data in it that may raise an eyebrow or…

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Washington State Lawmakers Reach Deadline Without Passing Privacy Act, But Reach Agreement on Amendments to Breach Notification Law

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Dissent

From Covington & Burling: The Washington Privacy Act stalled this April in the state’s House of Representatives, and will likely not reappear again for discussion until the 2020 legislative session. The bill overwhelmingly passed the Senate, but failed to come to a floor vote in the House of Representatives before the April 17th deadline for…

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