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Hacker responsible for 2020 Twitter breach sentenced to prison

Posted on June 23, 2023 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports the update to the case of Joseph James O’Connor, a British national who was extradited to the U.S. from Spain and pleaded guilty in May: Three years after one of the most visible hacks in recent history played out in real-time in front of millions of Twitter users, one of the hackers responsible…

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Stephen F. Austin State University students grow anxious about falling behind as school reels from cyberattack last week

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Dissent

Kate McGee reports: More than a week after Stephen F. Austin State University was hit with a cyberattack, leaders at the public university in the East Texas Pineywoods are still working to fully restore email and other online services for the 11,600-student campus. University spokesperson Graham Garner confirmed Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation…

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Vincera Institute notifies patients after ransomware attack

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Dissent

Vincera Institute in Philadelphi is notifying patients of a ransomware incident that occurred on April 29. From their press release, below, it sounds like they have not confirmed nor ruled out unauthorized access, exfiltration, or misuse of data. Vincera reported the incident to HHS on June 20 as four entities: Vincera Core Physicians reported that…

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Oreo cookie maker says crooks gobbled up staff info

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Dissent

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: Mondelez International has warned 51,000 of its past and present employees that their personal information has been stolen from a law firm hired by the Oreo and Ritz cracker giant. To be clear, the miscreants didn’t infiltrate Mondelez’s IT estate: they broke into Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP‘s network. And as…

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Ransomware affects emergency radiology workflows

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Dissent

June 20, 2023 — Ransomware attacks have a significant effect on emergency radiology workflows, as well as on acute care delivery and the personal well-being of healthcare providers, according to a study published June 15 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Researchers led by Liselotte van Boven, MD, from VieCuri Medical Center in Venlo, the Netherlands, found…

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FTC Says Genetic Testing Company 1Health Failed to Protect Privacy and Security of DNA Data and Unfairly Changed its Privacy Policy

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Dissent

The Federal Trade Commission charged that the genetic testing firm 1Health.io left sensitive genetic and health data unsecured, deceived consumers about their ability to get their data deleted, and changed its privacy policy retroactively without adequately notifying and obtaining consent from consumers whose data the company had already collected. As part of a proposed settlement with the…

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