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How do you make a data breach even worse? You notify the victims that they are dead.

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Dissent

The headline says it all: Some Treasure Valley residents receiving letters from Saint Alphonsus saying they are dead The situation started routinely enough — an employee’s email account was compromised.  In this case, the access was used to send out spam. Somehow, however, in the process of sending breach notifications, there was a mail merge…

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Cyberattack: Houston-area school district investigates troubling messages sent during technology breach

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Dissent

As if Texas didn’t have enough problems already… Tierra Smith reports: Magnolia ISD is responding to a technology breach that occurred Sunday afternoon, school officials confirmed. The district said the breach of unauthorized messages included social media, text messages, emails and phone calls. Many of the alleged messages, some of which were racist and directly…

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Trillium Community Health Plan members impacted by Accellion breach

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Dissent

DataBreaches.net has found a second HIPAA-covered entity that has revealed that it was affected by the Accellion attack by CLOP threat actors. On February 25, Trillium Community Health Plan in Oregon disclosed that they had been notified by Accellion on January 25 of the cyberattack that impacted dozens of Accellion’s clients. In Trillium’s case, the…

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Someone Hacked the Website of the Attorney Representing One of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Accusers

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Dissent

Colin Kalmbacher reports: The website for attorney Debra Katz, of the law firm of Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP, was hacked and taken offline early Saturday morning. Katz currently represents former political aide Charlotte Bennett in the investigation into alleged sexual harassment by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.). The splash page for kmblegal.com simply contained the phrase “AGENT-TEST” for hours before the firm was able…

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NYDFS Penalizes Mortgage Company For Not Disclosing 2019 Breach

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Dissent

Kim Phan of Ballard Spahr writes: On March 3rd, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) announced a settlement with Residential Mortgage Services, Inc. (“RMS”) to resolve allegations that RMS violated the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation relating to a 2019 cyber breach. In July 2020, NYDFS conducted an examination of RMS as a licensed mortgage…

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American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association hack impacted more than 161,000

Posted on March 6, 2021 by Dissent

The American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association, a non-profit organization in Virginia that provides insurance and benefits services to the military community, is notifying 161,621 individuals of a hacking incident. On January 29, AAFMAA became aware of suspicious activity on its system. Their investigation revealed that an unauthorized party had first gained access to certain…

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