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San Diego City Attorney announces lawsuit against Experian over massive data breach

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Dissent

At first I thought the headline had  a typo and that they meant to name Equifax, but they do, indeed, mean Experian. This suit goes back to an incident previously covered on this site that involved Experian acquiring a company, Court Ventures, that had access to another company’s, InfoSearch’s database…. and a bad actor named…

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CareMeridian notifies patients after disk goes missing in the mail

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Dissent

The following press release is basically identical to one provided yesterday by Georgia MENTOR. Neither Georgia MENTOR nor CareMeridian name the software provider who mailed them a disk with unencrypted documents that appears to have been lost in the mail. CareMeridian, LLC is notifying individuals of a data security event that could potentially impact the…

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Georgia MENTOR notifies patients after disk with protected health information discovered lost in the mail

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Dissent

From their press release: National Mentor Healthcare, LLC (d/b/a Georgia MENTOR) is notifying individuals of a data security event that could potentially impact the security of certain personal information. Although we are unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of the information, we are providing potentially impacted individuals with information about the event, steps taken…

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OCR investigating Banner Health’s 2016 data breach

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Dissent

Evan Sweeney reports: Already fending off a class-action lawsuit, Banner Health is also the subject of an ongoing federal investigation into a June 2016 cyberattack that exposed patient data. The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched an investigation in the aftermath of the attack that exposed data for 3.7…

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Six months after TheDarkOverlord attacked their district, School District 6 sends breach notification letters to parents

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Dissent

More than six months after the hacker or hackers known as TheDarkOverlord hacked and terrorized School District 6 in Columbia Falls, Montana, the district has sent parents breach notification letters revealing what they were able – and not able – to determine. Three versions of the March 19th letter, marked “Draft” and signed by Superintendent…

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Expedia’s Orbitz says 880,000 payment cards hit in breach

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Orbitz, a subsidiary of online travel agency Expedia Inc (EXPE.O), said on Tuesday that hackers may have accessed personal information from about 880,000 payment cards. The unit said an investigation showed that the breach may have occurred between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 22, 2017 for its partner platform and between Jan. 1,…

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