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Knoxville employees’ information exposed online for almost one year

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Dissent

WVLT reports: Employees with the City of Knoxville received a notification on Thursday that their private information, including their Social Security numbers, may have been revealed after data was ‘inadvertently’ posted on a procurement website. According to a city spokesperson, last year, personal information of employees who were employed as of Feb. 1, 2018, was…

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PHI of 1,002 Lebanon VA Medical Center Patients Exposed in Email Error

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Dissent

HIPAA Journal reports: Lebanon VA Medical Center in Pennsylvania has discovered the protected health information of hundreds of elderly patients has been impermissibly disclosed to a family member of a veteran. In November 2018, a member of staff at Lebanon VA Medical Center emailed a document to a family member of a veteran who was…

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All-Star Orthopaedics Provides Notice of Patient-Data Breach

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Dissent

Dallas, TX, January 18, 2019 –(PR.com)– All-Star Orthopaedics is notifying individuals that a hard drive with patient data was stolen on November 20, 2018. At this time, All-Star Orthopaedics has no indication that the private information has been accessed or misused. On November 20, 2019 (sic), All-Star Orthopaedics discovered a hard drive containing x-rays and…

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Massive Oklahoma Government Data Leak Exposes 7 Years of FBI Investigations

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Dissent

Thomas Brewster reports: Another day, another huge leak of government information. Last December, a whopping 3 terabytes of unprotected data from the Oklahoma Securities Commission was uncovered by Greg Pollock, a researcher with cybersecurity firm UpGuard. It amounted to millions of files, many on sensitive FBI investigations, all of which were left wide open on…

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VA: Notice of Click2Gov-related Data Breach of Hanover County Online Payment System

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Dissent

From the county’s notice, which you can find in its entirety here: Hanover County was recently notified about potential unauthorized charges on credit cards used by customers to pay their utility bills via the website between August 1, 2018 and January 9, 2019. The County takes the security and protection of its customers’ confidential information…

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WI: Criminals may have stolen personal info from thousands after hacking Kewaskum Police computer

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Dissent

Julia Fello reports: Criminals may have stolen thousands of people’s sensitive information from a hacked computer inside the Kewaskum Police Department. In a village with a population of just 4,000 Kewaskum Police Chief Thomas Bishop mailed 2,720 letters to potential victims. Most of the potential victims are from Colorado and the Chicagoland area. […] This…

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