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Data Breach Might Impact 500,000 San Diego Unified School District Students, Former Students, and Some Staff

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Dissent

Steven Luke and R. Stickney report: San Diego Unified School District officials are informing parents and former students of a large data breach. Personal data including Social Security numbers from as many as 500,000 students was compromised or possibly stolen, officials say. The breach dating back to January 2018 was uncovered in October by district IT employees who…

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MA: Payment Processor to Pay $155,000 Over Data Breach Affecting Thousands of Massachusetts Residents

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Dissent

Massachusetts Attorney General had a busy day yesterday announcing enforcement actions over data breaches that had been disclosed in 2015. In addition to her announcement about the McLean Hospital settlement, she also announced a second settlement stemming from another 2015 breach that had also been reported by DataBreaches.net at the time. A California company that…

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MA: McLean Hospital to Implement New Security and Training Programs After Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Health Information

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to a 2015 breach that was previously reported on this blog.  Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey made the announcement yesterday: BOSTON — McLean Hospital Corporation will implement new security and training programs and pay a total of $75,000 to resolve claims that it exposed the personal and health information of more than 1,500 people, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today.  According…

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Government Hackers Assault Hundreds Of ‘Secure’ Google Accounts With Evil Phishes

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Dissent

Thomas Brewster reports: Over at least the last two years, a group of government hackers has been targeting supposedly secured email services from the likes of Google, Yahoo, Protonmail and Tutanota. Most targets are in the Middle East and Africa and, though it remains unclear just where the hackers themselves hail from, the attacks appear…

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France fines Uber 400,000 euros over huge data breach

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Dissent

AFP reports: France’s data protection agency said Thursday that it had fined the US ride-hailing group Uber 400,000 euros ($460,000) over a 2016 data breach that exposed the personal data of some 57 million clients and drivers worldwide. Uber drew the wrath of users and regulators after the company waited a year before revealing in…

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Almost four dozen Click2Gov breaches later and almost 300,000 affected; data showing up on dark web – report

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Dissent

Jeff John Roberts reports on a new report and analysis by Gemini Advisory: Paying parking tickets or municipal water taxes is never fun—and it’s even worse when hackers have compromised your town’s payment system. Yet, that’s what happened in dozens of towns across the U.S. where cyber crooks have made off with the personal data…

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