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ClearBalance notifying more than 209,000 patients who have medical expense loans

Posted on July 13, 2021 by Dissent

Many readers may never have heard of CSI Financial Services, LLC but as ClearBalance, the California firm services loans made by hospitals and providers to patients who need to finance medical expenses. A recent filing with the Maine Attorney General’s Office reveals that beginning on March 8, there was unauthorized access to some employee email…

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Moroccan hacker Dr HeX arrested for phishing attacks, malware distribution

Posted on July 6, 2021 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Moroccan authorities arrested a suspect known in underground hacking circles as “Dr HeX” on accusations of orchestrating a 12-year-old cybercrime spree that included website defacements, phishing attacks, and malware distribution, Interpol announced today. The arrest took place in May this year and was announced today as part of Interpol’s Operation Lyrebird. In a blog…

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Hackety hack hack…

Posted on July 4, 2021 by Dissent

There are so many breach reports that it’s hard to even find all the notices and reports about them these days. These days, there are many breaches that I log in worksheets I compile for Protenus’s Breach Barometer annual report but never even post on this blog. Just today, for example, I found: a notice…

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Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed at Business Explode

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Dissent

Socially engineered BEC attacks using X-rated material spike 974 percent. Becky Bracken reports: Attackers have amped up their use of X-rated phishing lures in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. A new report found a stunning 974-percent spike in social-engineering scams involving suggestive materials, usually aimed at male-sounding names within a company. The Threat Intelligence team…

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OH: Five Rivers Health Centers notified 155,748 patients after phishing incident

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Dissent

On May 28, Five Rivers Health Centers in Ohio notified HHS about a data security incident that impacted 155,748 patients. The following is their media notice, linked from the home page of their web site if you can find it (see attached, where I highlighted the location of the link on their home page). DataBreaches.net…

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MI: WMed warns 2,474 employees and beneficiaries enrolled in healthcare coverage of phishing incident

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Dissent

Brad Devereaux reports: WMed has alerted employees, former employees and their beneficiaries covered under employee healthcare coverage about a data security incident caused by phishing that exposed personal information. Someone within the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, or WMed, clicked on a “phishing” link in an email, which allowed outside access…

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