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Texas Medical Network Attracts Most Healthcare Data Hacks But It Is Fighting Back

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Dissent

Paul Flahive reports: Cyber criminals stole the health records of more than 9 million Americans last year, according to data from U.S. Health and Human Services. The data collected includes breaches from hospitals, health insurers and other health organizations covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which makes breaches public when they affect…

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Former Sen. Hassan Aide Stole Gigabytes Of ‘High Value’ Data

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Dissent

Luke Rosiak reports: A former IT aide to New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan mounted an “extraordinarily extensive data-theft scheme” against the office, the culprit’s plea agreement states. The plot included the installation of tiny “keylogging” devices that picked up every keystroke. Between July and October 2018, former IT aide Jackson Cosko worked with an…

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Almost $500,000 swiped in city of Tallahassee payroll hack

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Dissent

Karl Etters reports: Almost half a million dollars was diverted out of the city of Tallahassee’s employee payroll Wednesday after a suspected foreign cyber-attack of its human resources management application. Hackers attempt every day to breach the city’s security, officials say, but this week’s operation netted about $498,000. Read more on Tallahassee Democrat.

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VoterVoice database leaks email addresses, messages to elected officials

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Dissent

Teri Robinson reports: An unsecured database at VoterVoice exposed a trove of personal information, including more than 300,000 unique email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers of people who have sent messages to legislators or participated in campaigns around hot political topics through “the grassroots advocacy system.” Read more on SC Magazine.

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Health data breaches due to external actors continue to predominate recently.

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Dissent

Because I’m at a conference, it’s been hard to update a lot, but here are a few of the health data breaches I’ve spotted this week: Main Line Endoscopy Centers in Pennsylvania announced that it recently mailed notifications to patients whose personal information was in an employee’s email account a t the time that the…

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PA: Bill Targets Data Security of State Agencies, Municipalities and School Districts

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Dissent

Thomas S. Markey writes: On Feb. 19, a bill was introduced in the Pennsylvania Senate proposing to amend the Pennsylvania Breach of Personal Information Notification Act to add new breach notification requirements for state agencies and political subdivisions of the commonwealth. Enacted in 2005, the act (73 P.S. Section 2301 et seq.) applies to commonwealth…

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