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Update: LifeBridge Health notifying 500,000 patients of security incident

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Dissent

Remember that LifeBridge Health and LifeBridge Potomac Professionals malware incident noted on this site on May 16?  Baltimore Sun reports that they are notifying 500,000. Ouch.

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UK: The University of Greenwich fined £120,000 by Information Commissioner for “serious” security breach

Posted on May 21, 2018 by Dissent

The University of Greenwich has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner following a “serious” security breach involving the personal data of nearly 20,000 people – among them students and staff. It is the first university to have been fined by the Commissioner under the existing data protection legislation (Data Protection Act 1998). The investigation…

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Actor Advertises Japanese PII on Chinese Underground

Posted on May 19, 2018 by Dissent

Kelly Sheridan reports: A dataset containing more than 200 million lines of Japanese personally identifiable information (PII) has been found on the Chinese underground market, researchers report. It’s believed the data is authentic and was exfiltrated from multiple Japanese website databases. Experts at FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence first noticed the actor advertising the dataset in December…

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South Carolina Enacts First Insurance Data Security Act

Posted on May 19, 2018 by Dissent

Edward J. McAndrew of Ballard Spahr LLP writes: South Carolina has become the first state to enact a version of the Insurance Data Security Model Law, which was drafted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in 2017. Governor Henry McMaster signed the South Carolina Insurance Data Security Act into law on May 14, 2018. The Act…

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EPIC to DC Circuit: Informational Privacy is a Constitutional Right

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Dissent

From EPIC: EPIC has filed a “friend of the court” brief, joined by forty-four technical experts and legal scholars (members of the EPIC Advisory Board), in the OPM Data Breachcase. The case concerns the data breach at the US Office of Personnel and Management in 2015 that affected 22 million federal employees, their friends, and…

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Two Members of Syrian Electronic Army Indicted for Conspiracy

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Dissent

May 17 – ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment today charging two Syrian men with offenses relating to their participation in a conspiracy to engage in computer hacking as members of the “Syrian Electronic Army” or “SEA.” Ahmad ‘Umar Agha, who is known online as the “The Pro,” and Firas Dardar,…

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