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SEC Warns Advisers Over Privacy Compliance Issues

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Dissent

Craig A. Newman of Patterson Belknap writes: The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning investment firms to step up their game when it comes to following the agency’s privacy rules. In a Risk Alert issued by the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), a laundry list of compliance “deficiencies or weaknesses” were identified in…

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Email breach exposes hospice patients

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Dissent

The Bulletin reports: An employee at Bend-based hospice Partners in Care was the victim of an email phishing attack that exposed the private health information of some patients. Partners In Care discovered the attack on March 4 and did an “extensive” forensic investigation and manual email review, according to a press release. The unidentified employee’s…

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VA: Arlington Public Schools Informs Parents of Limited Data Breach

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Dissent

ARLNow reports: An “error” in the data inputted to the college readiness system used by Arlington Public Schools may have exposed the name, address, grade point average and college entrance exam scores of nearly two dozen students to an unrelated parent. Superintendent Patrick Murphy was sending a message, below, to all secondary (grades 6-12) families Friday morning informing…

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OH: Hackers hit $1.75 million from St. Ambrose Parish

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Dissent

Another victim of attackers who convinced the victim that a contractor’s bank account had been changed. This is the same type of fraud that a school district in Kentucky recently reported might have cost them $3.7 million. Now WKYC  reports: BRUNSWICK, Ohio — Leaders at St. Ambrose Catholic Parish in Brunswick say hackers stole $1.75…

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MS: Lauderdale County employees’ sensitive information exposed

Posted on April 28, 2019 by Dissent

Whitney Downard reports: More than 100 Lauderdale County employees had their sensitive information shared via email to other employees covered by the county’s healthcare plan in an accidental exposure Tuesday. Personal information in the email included names, social security numbers and phone numbers. Chris Lafferty, the county administrator, inadvertently shared the information in a county-wide email sharing health…

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University of Alaska discovered a breach in February, 2018 that they are first revealing now?

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Dissent

The following is not quite the typical press release like we’ve been seeing on an almost daily basis. If this notice doesn’t include typos, then it appears that the University of Alaska first became aware that they had a problem in February of 2018. They started an investigation that they expanded in March, 2018 after…

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