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Was LabMD Hacked? A Key Issue in Lawsuit Against FTC Lawyers

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Dissent

Craig A. Newman of Patterson Belknap writes: Did LabMD, the now-defunct cancer testing company, expose sensitive patient information with shoddy data security practices as U.S. regulations have charged, or was the company victimized by a private forensics firm extorting it for business – raising the troubling question of whether the entire case against LabMD was…

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Forum post claims breach of 850k users’ information; leak from recruitmilitary.com?

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Dissent

Lee Johnstone reports on a leak involving a non-profit organization that tries to match employers with job seekers who are veterans: Today a user has posted a new thread to a known forum that makes claim of an breach of over 850,000 US military officers personal information. The user who goes by the name booloop…

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Joint Base Charleston notifies airmen of possible breach of personal information

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Dissent

Harve Jacobs reports: A mistake made at a medical clinic caused a potential breach of personal information of current and former airmen at Joint Base Charleston. The base says folders of paper records were improperly created at a base clinic. A former airman says he received a letter from the 628th medical group mentioning a “potential…

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Jury Convicts Anonymous Hacker Who DDoSed Children’s Hospital, Later Got Lost at Sea

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: A member of the Anonymous hacker collective was found guilty this week in a trial for a series of cyber-attacks the man had conducted in 2014, including some aimed at children’s hospitals. The hacker —Martin Gottesfeld, 32, of Sommerville, Massachusetts— was one of the main driving forces behind the #OpJustina Anonymous campaign….

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Department of Human Services Alerts HHS and Pennsylvanians of Compass System Error

Posted on August 1, 2018 by Dissent

If you are like me, you might not realize from their original headline, “Department of Human Services Alerts Pennsylvanians of Compass System Error” that they’re talking about a breach involving PHI.  I just figured North was pointing South for a while or something like that….  Anyway, here is the notice that explains their recent report…

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BitPaymer Ransomware Infection Forces Alaskan Town to Use Typewriters for a Week

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: On Monday, officials from Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su), a borough part of the Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area, said they are still recovering from a ransomware infection that took place last week, on July 24. The ransomware infection crippled the Borough’s government networks and has led to the IT staff shutting down a large swath…

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