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Nearly 8K Georgia Tech students had personal info leaked in email gaffe

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Dissent

Jonathan Carlson reports: The CBS46 Bulldog learned exclusively of an accidental breach of records at Georgia Tech involving everything from grades to home addresses. Georgia Tech tells CBS46 that nearly 8,000 students were impacted. “It is kind of uncomfortable, ya know,” one student told us on campus. Students are reacting after a staffer in the…

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KS: Garden City Community College investigating possible email breach

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Dissent

Amber Friend reports: Reports of unauthorized monitoring of several Garden City Community College employees’ emails prompted the college to open an investigation Friday, an action that included starting the probe with the college’s information technology department and placing its three-man staff on suspension with pay until further notice. The media report names the suspended staff…

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Southern College of Optometry notifies students whose loan information was hacked

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Dissent

The Southern College of Optometry (SCO) has notified an undisclosed number of students whose student loan information and Social Security numbers were in an employee email account that was hacked. In its notification letter of July 16, SCO President Lewis N. Reich, OD, PhD writes: As stated in our email of June 15, 2018, we discovered…

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LifeLock Bug Exposed Millions of Customer Email Addresses

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Identity theft protection firm LifeLock — a company that’s built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online — may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers. The company just fixed a vulnerability on its site that allowed anyone with…

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SC: Roper Hospital patient records in courier’s stolen car

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Dissent

Rebecca Collett reports that a courier for Roper Hospital had a suitcase with patient records stolen on July 3 while she was paying for gas: The medical records were in a locked suitcase in the car, according to Andy Lyons, the Director of Corporate Communications for the hospital system.   The records belong to 133 patients…

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MO: Blue Springs Family Care notifies 44,979 patients after ransomware attack

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Dissent

I read an article recently that cited a study by Cryptonite claiming that according to HHS’s breach tool, it appears that ransomware attacks are down in the healthcare sector this year.  My mental response was just to shrug because I’ve already declared time of death on using HHS’s breach tool as any kind of serious…

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