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Missouri man pleads guilty to fraud scheme that used stolen identities of Johnson County employees

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Dissent

KTTN reports: A Missouri man pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a fraud scheme that utilized the stolen identities of Johnson County, Kansas, government employees to make fraudulent purchases. Michael B. Becher, 40, of Raytown, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs to participating in a conspiracy to commit credit…

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NYC Education Dept. will roll out its own online gradebook after security breach and data hack

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Dissent

Michael Elsen-Rooney reports: The New York City Education Department is planning to roll out its own online grading and attendance system to replace a widely-used platform that was hacked earlier this year, exposing the personal information of nearly one million students. The new system, developed by the agency’s IT team, will launch in beta form…

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Settlement in Solara Medical Supplies litigation gets preliminary approval

Posted on May 19, 2022 by Dissent

As reported by TopClassActions, Solara Medical Supplies has agreed to a $9.76 million class action settlement benefiting those whose personal information may have been compromised during a 2019 data breach that occurred between April 2 and June 20, 2019. That would include employees and patients whose protected health information was in employee email accounts compromised…

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Washington Local School District in Toledo, Ohio hit by disruptive cyberattack

Posted on May 19, 2022 by Dissent

WTVG reports Washington Local School District in Toledo, Ohio has been hit by a cyberattack that has disrupted much of its communication avenues including phones, internet, email, wifi networks, and Google classroom. Read more at WTVG, although they are only in beginning stages of investigating and responding to the incident.

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Immediate care facility in Chicago hacked in December. Do patients know? (UPDATE1)

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Dissent

Approximately 43,000 patients of an immediate care facility and its associated primary care practice in Chicago may or may not know it yet, but threat actors gained access to protected health information in December and proceeded to remove more than 500 GB of files between December and May 10. Or so the threat actors claim….

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Behavioral health entities in Massachusetts and Ohio reportedly victims of cyberattacks

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Dissent

DataBreaches.net has found two behavioral health entities that reportedly or allegedly experienced recent cyberattacks involving protected health information of patients. The first, Behavioral Health Partners of Metrowest (BHPMW), describes itself as a partnership that brings together leading social services and behavioral health agencies serving the Greater MetroWest region of Massachusetts. Together, they write, Family Continuity,…

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