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Los Angeles County health department targeted in ransomware attack

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Dissent

Abby Sewell reports that Los Angeles County Department of Health Services computers were hit with a ransomware attack just days after a similar attack on Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center.  The attack was on a smaller scale and the county did not pay any ransom. Nor, it seems, did they need to. Spokesman Michael Wilson said the agency…

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IL: FHN Memorial Hospital reveals hard drive with patient info was stolen in December

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Dissent

Adam Poulisse reports: A computer hard drive containing patient information was stolen from FHN Memorial Hospital in December. The hard drive did not contain medical records, but did have internal reports and spreadsheets with patient data, according to a FHN news release. The files may have included a patient’s name, Social Security number, contact information,…

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BJC HealthCare Accountable Care Organization Notifies Patients of Unencrypted Email

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Dissent

(Feb. 26, 2016, ST. LOUIS) – BJC HealthCare Accountable Care Organization (BJC ACO) has notified 2,393 patients that identifying information was sent to a participating medical practice through an unencrypted email. All affected patients have been offered identity theft protection free of charge. BJC ACO discovered on Dec. 30, 2015, that an email containing health information…

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Snapchat “just impossibly sorry” after employee payroll data compromised in BEC scam

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Dissent

John Russell reports that a number of Snapchat’s  current and former employees had their payroll information stolen after an employee fell for what has become a common attack known as BEC (Business Email Compromise). In BEC, a scammer poses as a corporate executive and sends an email requesting payroll or customer data. “Last Friday, Snapchat’s payroll department was targeted by an…

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Some Time Warner Business Class customer data hacked and dumped by TeaMp0isoN

Posted on February 28, 2016 by Dissent

It looks like TeaMp0isoN’s been busy again. This time it’s the Time Warner Cable Business Class Managed Security Solutions portal that got hacked with the following defacement left as a message: The @TeaMp0sioN Twitter account announced the breach by Pseudo, Militis, Jimmy, and  MLT on Sunday afternoon, followed shortly by a data dump consisting of 4,191 records containing…

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Federal Times obtained and analyzed 26,381 security incidents reported by HHS components over a 30-month period

Posted on February 28, 2016 by Dissent

Kudos to Federal Times, who obtained a tremendous amount of data from HHS about security incidents involving their component systems. Aaron Boyd reports on their analysis of data, which was obtained through a Freedom of Information request. The analyses look at types of attacks by components of HHS. Here’s some of their analysis and findings: The records…

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