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Why won’t they tell you that your data were leaked? Why doesn’t the government make them tell you?

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Dissent

For the past few years, DataBreaches has called out victims of cyberattacks who do not fully disclose how bad a breach was. Weasel words such as something “may have” happened when a victim knows damned well that it wasn’t just “may have” but did happen are just one example. Another example involves victims who claim…

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VT: Randolph-area school district disables its own website following transphobic hack

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Dissent

  Auditi Guha reports: The Orange Southwest Supervisory District’s website was hacked Saturday and inundated with “hate speech, symbols, and photographs targeting transgender invidividuals [sic],” superintendent Layne Millington wrote community members on Saturday. The incident prompted district leaders to disable its website and social media accounts, Millington wrote, and to refer the matter to local…

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The Coeur Group notifies patients of data breach

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Dissent

DataBreaches has not seen anything on HHS’s public breach tool, but the Coeur Group in Omaha, Nebraska, published a legal notice about a cybersecurity incident involving patient information. According to their statement, an employee’s email account in Coeur Group’s business email system was compromised between June 7 and July 12, 2022. The breach was discovered on…

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US says ex-Army major and his wife tried to leak military health data to Russia

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Dissent

Reuters reports:  A former US Army major and his anesthesiologist wife have been criminally charged for allegedly plotting to leak highly sensitive healthcare data about military patients to Russia, the Justice Department revealed on Thursday. Jamie Lee Henry, the former major who was also a doctor at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and his wife,…

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Health worker photographed patient credit cards and went shopping with them, cops say

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Dissent

Brendan Rascius reports: A Maryland woman accused of using stolen credit and debit card information — then using it to shop online — has been charged with 120 counts of theft and fraud, police said in a news release. The woman was employed at a Walgreens in Cambridge, Maryland, a riverside city of about 13,000…

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Updates on three class action lawsuits involving patient data

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Dissent

Magellan Health Magellan Health agreed to pay $1.43 million to resolve data breach claims stemming from a 2019 phishing attack that exposed data for thousands of patients. The settlement benefits individuals who received a notification that their personal identifying information or personal health information may have been compromised in the 2019 Magellan Health data breach….

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