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LabCorp website bug exposed thousands of medical documents

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: A security flaw in LabCorp’s  website exposed thousands of medical documents, like test results containing sensitive health data. ….    This latest security lapse was caused by a vulnerability on a part of LabCorp’s website, understood to host the company’s internal customer relationship management system. Although the system appeared to be protected with a…

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Beaumont investigating security breach of 1,200 patient files

Posted on January 25, 2020 by Dissent

Sarah Rahal reports: Beaumont Health officials are investigating a security breach by a former employee who accessed patient information, hospital officials said Saturday. Beaumont notified 1,182 individuals about the incident on Friday saying a now-former employee had unauthorized access of patient information. The employee, who was terminated, is suspected of disclosing information to an individual working…

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TX: Hackers Stole $10.5 Million From Richardson Company: Feds

Posted on January 25, 2020 by Dissent

Scott Gordon reports: Hackers stole $10.5 million from a Richardson real estate software company with the help of “money mules” – dozens of Americans who unwittingly accepted fraudulent money into their accounts, transferred it to those behind the scheme, and kept a cut for themselves, according to court documents. The company, RealPage, contacted the Dallas…

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Iowa DHS data breach: Boxed for shredding, documents were dumped by janitor instead

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Dissent

Andrea May Sahouri reports: The Iowa Department of Human Services reported Friday a data breach that occurred in November involving personal information of 4,784 individuals related to income maintenance and social work cases in Dallas County, according to a DHS news release. A contracted custodial company mistakenly emptied boxes containing documents to be shredded into the office’s…

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Fired computer programmer gets prison time for cyberattack against ex-employer in Oregon

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Dissent

Maxine Bernstein reports: A man fired from a McMinnville-based digital marketing company was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in federal prison for launching a cyberattack against his former employer. Kristopher Ives began working for Gearbox Studios in March 2010 as a computer programmer and later as its lead programmer for server architecture…

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PIH Health notifies almost 200,000 patients whose protected health information was sitting in employee email accounts that were compromised

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Dissent

Posted by PIH Health on their website on January 10, 2020: Notification of Data Security Incident January 10, 2020 – PIH Health has become aware of a data security incident that may have impacted personal information and protected health information belonging to certain current and former patients.  On January 10, 2020, PIH Health notified potentially…

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