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Rebound Orthopedics & Neurosurgery reports data breach

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Dissent

CISOMAG reports: The officials at Rebound Orthopedics & Neurosurgery stated that they’ve fallen victim to a major data theft that exposed its customers’ personal data, including Social Security numbers and limited health information. The Vancouver-based diagnosis and treatment services company stated around 2,800 of its patients and employees may have been affected by the incident….

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Two years after ‘trauma’ of hack, DNC builds a tech team with a veteran bench

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Dissent

Tim Johnson reports: The digital operations team at the Democratic National Committee hit some dark days after Russian hackers mauled their networks in 2016, hijacking dozens of computers and pilfering tens of thousands of emails to hand over to WikiLeaks and onto the internet. Remnants of that digital bruising linger. “I feel like everyone’s still…

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MedCall Advisors suffers second data leak in less than one month

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Dissent

A few weeks ago, DataBreaches.net reported on a leaky Amazon S3 bucket owned by MedCall Advisors in North Carolina. The leak, which exposed approximately 3,000 patients’ protected health information, was discovered by UpGuard, who published a number of redacted screenshots to document the leak.  Their detailed report also noted how Randy Baker, the CEO of MedCall…

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An OCR investigation illustrates the value of investigating small and medium-sized entities

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Dissent

One of the common themes in discussing security is that many organizations are not “mature” yet. And of course, as HIPAA recognizes in its security rule, smaller practices should not be expected to do everything you might expect a larger hospital system to do. But even small or  medium-sized entities need to comply with the core…

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MD: 600 Anne Arundel County library computers affected by “Emotet” virus

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Dissent

Chase Cook reports: About 600 Anne Arundel County Library computers were exposed to a computer virus, prompting officials to take the computers out of service and ask customers to monitor personal information for fraudulent activity. It was announced Saturday that the computers were exposed to a virus called Emotet, which targets users through sophisticated email…

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California court allows lawsuit over breach of HIV patients’ information to move forward

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Dissent

There’s an update on a lawsuit previously noted on this site. John Riley reports: The Superior Court of California has rejected a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit on behalf of 93 HIV-positive people, who had their personal information compromised by a data breach of the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program online enrollment system….

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