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BUSTED? A blackhat’s revenge exposes a 2-year old patient data hack that Holland Eye Surgery & Laser Center failed to disclose

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Dissent

A blackhat hacker known as “Lifelock” had claimed Holland Eye Surgery and Laser Center knew about his hack two years ago but failed to disclose it to patients or HHS.  A follow-up investigation by DataBreaches.net uncovered evidence supporting his claim. The evidence has been turned over to federal regulators.  On June 2, DataBreaches.net reported that…

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How they did it (and will likely try again): GRU hackers vs. US elections

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Dissent

Sean Gallagher does a deeper dive into the indictment of 12 GRU agents for meddling with the U.S. 2016 election. Here’s just a small snippet: After digging into this latest indictment, the evidence suggests Trump may not have made a very good call on this matter [publicly expressing doubt that Russia was involved]. But his…

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North Dakota Veterans’ personal information at risk, audit says

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Dissent

James B. Miller reports: In an extensive report, the Office of the State Auditor recently expressed concerns with the North Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs’ handling of the veteran aid loan, hardship assistance grant, impact grant and highly rural transportation grant programs. […] Most notably, the audit found that the Veteran Aid Loan System was…

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MA: Deal Struck To Protect Consumers Hurt By Data Breaches

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Dissent

Katie Lannan reports: A compromise bill filed Tuesday by a House-Senate conference committee would afford Massachusetts residents a year and a half of free credit monitoring services if their personal data and Social Security number are compromised by a data security breach. The panel, chaired by Rep. Tackey Chan and Sen. Barbara L’Italien, filed its…

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Thousands of Medical Records Left Unsecured–So Who’s Investigating?

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Dissent

A news report from a few days ago is  actually a good example of the frustration some experience with OCR investigation of breaches. TL;DR version:  a breach was reported by the media in March, 2017.  This site also noted it.  But now, more than one year later, there have been no consequences for the entity,…

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Vietnam’s New Cybersecurity Law and Push for Internet Sovereignty Reduces Freedom

Posted on July 21, 2018 by Dissent

Scott Ikeda reports: On June 12th the Vietnamese National Assembly voted in a new cybersecurity law. The legislation did not come easily having gone through more than 12 drafts and much debate in government and the business sector. The claimed purposes of the legislation are to increase Vietnam’s Internet sovereignty, that is the data of…

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