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Medical Debt Collection Firm R1 RCM Hit in Ransomware Attack

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: R1 RCM Inc. [NASDAQ:RCM], one of the nation’s largest medical debt collection companies, has been hit in a ransomware attack. Formerly known as Accretive Health Inc., Chicago-based R1 RCM brought in revenues of $1.18 billion in 2019. The company has more than 19,000 employees and contracts with at least 750 healthcare organizations nationwide. Read…

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Hacker leaks data for U.S. gun exchange site on cybercrime forum

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: A hacker has released the databases of Utah-based gun exchange, hunting, and kratom sites for free on a cybercrime forum. On August 10th, a threat actor posted databases that they claim contain 195,000 user records for the utahgunexchange.com, 45,000 records for their video site, 15,000 records from the hunting site muleyfreak.com, and 24,000…

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Medical records for cardiac patients left unsecured online

Posted on August 13, 2020 by Dissent

On August 2, a researcher contacted DataBreaches.net about a misconfigured Amazon s3 storage bucket they had discovered.  The bucket contained more than 10,000 files, recently updated, with protected health information of patients seen by or involved with BioTel Heart cardiac data network. Sometimes it is easy to figure out the likely owner of an Amazon…

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Ad Industry Opposes FTC’s Proposed Security Regulations For Financial Institutions

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Dissent

Wendy Davis reports: The Federal Trade Commission’s proposed changes to security regulations for financial institutions could also affect a broad swath of non-financial companies — including ad agencies, social networks, lead generators and ad-tech companies — according to the Association of National Advertisers. The organization is urging the FTC to refrain from imposing a slate…

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Imperial Valley College Hit With Ransomware Attack; Multiple Systems Impacted

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Dissent

Richard Montenegro Brown and Jayson Barniske report: Imperial Valley College releases a brief press statement with some additional information.) A ransomware attack unleashed on Imperial Valley College’s computer system on Aug. 6 brought down critical systems that remained offline and will likely continue until further notice, a college spokesperson confirmed. Read more on Calexico Chronicle.

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Ashley County Medical Center investigates former employee accused of violating federal privacy laws

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Dissent

Gabrielle Phifer reports: Ashley County Medical Center is investigating a former employee they claim inappropriately viewed medical records of 772 patients. According to a release, ACMC’s policy and procedures revealed that a former employee, who has been identified as a nurse, accessed some patient information for purposes unrelated to care and treatment. Based on investigations…

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