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Vendor Hack Tied to 20 Anesthesiology Practice Breaches

Posted on November 5, 2022 by Dissent

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A hacking incident at a New York-based administrative services firm has resulted in a growing list of anesthesiology practices reporting breaches that so far have affected the personal information of about 430,000 people. Somnia Inc., in Harrison, New York, is a physician-owned anesthesia management services firm that also appears to have…

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A state-appointed receiver is investigating a phishing scam that drained $400K from Chester’s coffers

Posted on November 5, 2022 by Dissent

Vinny Vella reports: A phishing scam siphoned more than $400,000 from Chester in June, and the state-appointed receiver who is handling the beleaguered city’s finances wants to know why his office wasn’t notified until two weeks ago. In a memo sent to Mayor Thaddeus Kirkland and Chester’s city council on Monday, Michael T. Doweary said…

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SolarWinds reaches $26m settlement with shareholders, expects SEC action

Posted on November 5, 2022 by Dissent

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: SolarWinds has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit, and it’s also expecting to be slapped with an enforcement action by Uncle Sam – both related to its infamous 2020 supply chain security fiasco, according to the software maker’s most recent US regulatory filing. At the end of…

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LinkedIn Scores Partial Win in Long-Running Data Scraping Feud

Posted on November 5, 2022 by Dissent

Andrea Vittorio reports: A workforce analytics firm breached LinkedIn Corp.‘s user agreement by scraping data and using fake accounts to fuel its now-defunct business, a federal court in San Francisco ruled in a lengthy dispute that’s on a path to trial. The ruling, made public Friday, represents a partial win for LinkedIn in a case that…

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CT: Brookfield admits ‘blackout pen’ error led to sharing of special education students’ information

Posted on November 5, 2022 by Dissent

Trevor Ballantyne reports: School officials this week acknowledged a failure to properly redact personally identifiable information linked to students receiving special education services from the school district. According to emails obtained by The News-Times, parents accused the district of violating privacy protections laid out under the U.S. Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA,…

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AstraZeneca password lapse exposed patient data

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Dissent

Here’s today’s example of “No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking.”  Zack Whittaker reports: Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has blamed “user error” for leaving a list of credentials online for more than a year that exposed access to sensitive patient data. Mossab Hussein, chief security officer at cybersecurity startup SpiderSilk, told TechCrunch that a developer left the…

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