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Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools e-mail hacked by Rick-Rollers

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Dissent

Shawn Krest reports: The email system for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools was used to send a prank email to all Chapel Hill-Carrboro students and staff members on Wednesday. The school confirmed the attack in an email Wednesday evening. “Someone hacked our district email account and sent a phony message to all staff and students,” the…

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Trump’s Press Secretary Appears to Have Exposed President’s Banking Information

Posted on May 24, 2020 by Dissent

Daniel Politi reports: During a briefing on Friday, Donald Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, wanted to tell a feel-good story of where the president had decided to donate his salary this quarter. So she held up the $100,000 check that she said Trump would donate to the Department of Health and Human Services to “support…

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Five months after they were notified of a data breach, Prime Communication notifies 8,000 employees

Posted on May 23, 2020 by Dissent

Last month, I pointed readers to a news report out of Moore, Oklahoma about how Tonya Smith, a former employee of Prime Communications, had reportedly been sent an email with personal information on 8,000 of their employees.  The mistake occurred on December 11, 2019 after Smith had been terminated by Prime for performance issues. In…

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TN: The Little Clinic notifies more than 10,000 patients after discovering glitch in online appointment system

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Dissent

The following is a press release: NASHVILLE, Tenn.May 22, 2020– The Little Clinic (TLC) announced today that patients could have had their protected health information (PHI) accessed due to a failure in TLC’s online appointment functionality. The Little Clinic made the discovery internally and found if a patient made an appointment and modified that appointment online,…

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Leesburg Woman Sentenced To 48 Months In Prison For Aggravated Identity Theft And Wire Fraud

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Dissent

There’s an update to an insider breach previously reported on this site.  From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida on May 19: Ocala, Florida – Senior U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Stacey Lavette Hendricks (49, Leesburg) to 48 months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft and wire…

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Popular teen app Wishbone hacked (again), 40 million users’ info being given away

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Dissent

We know that no security is perfect, but when a company collecting and storing teenagers’ data has repeated breaches, it’s cause for concern – and possible investigation by federal and state regulators. In 2017, we learned that the popular teen quiz app, Wishbone, had been “hacked.” According to reports at the time, hackers snagged 2.2…

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