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Penobscot Community Health Center notifying 13,000 patients about collection agency breach

Posted on July 13, 2019 by Dissent

Add Penobscot Community Health Center in Maine to the list of entities that had patients affected by the American Medical Collections Agency hack.They posted the following notice on their website: PCHC values the privacy and confidentiality of its patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) incident, which you may…

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AZ: Gila County experiences major interruption in technical service

Posted on July 13, 2019 by Dissent

Teresa Mcquerrey reports: Gila County’s email and phone systems were apparently infected by ransomware starting July 2. It took a week before most of its online services were restored. […] As of press time, the county had released no official statement about the cause or scope of the problem with its online services. Read more…

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US mayors group adopts resolution not to pay any more ransoms to hackers

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Conference of Mayors unanimously adopted yesterday a resolution not to pay any more ransom demands to hackers following ransomware infections. “Paying ransomware attackers encourages continued attacks on other government systems, as perpetrators financially benefit,” the adopted resolution reads. Read more on ZDNet.

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Hackers target Monroe College with ransomware, demand $2 million in bitcoin

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Dissent

Stephanie Pagones reports: Monroe College is “under cyberattack” by hackers who demanded approximately $2 million in bitcoin, police and school officials said Thursday. The school’s computer programs were hacked around 6:45 a.m. Wednesday by a group that got in through ransomware and halted the system, cops said. The hackers sent a message demanding that the…

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Premera Blue Cross pays states $10 million over data breach (Updated)

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dissent

Associated Press reports: Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to pay $10 million to 30 states following an investigation into a data breach that exposed confidential information on more than 10 million people across the country. The settlement, negotiated with the Washington attorney general’s office and filed in…

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Data breach exposes information of nearly 15,000 patients of LA County’s Department of Health Services, officials say

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dissent

Pierce Singgih reports: The personal data of 14,591 L.A. County patients has been exposed in a hack of an L.A. County Department of Health Services contractor’s email, officials said Tuesday. An employee of the Nemadji Research Corporation, a contractor that identifies and verifies patient eligibility for programs that reimburse care provided by DHS, was hacked…

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