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Montana State University Billings notifying students after laptop was stolen in November

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Dissent

Ugh. Another laptop was apparently stolen from an employee’s car. This one was from the education sector, but it contained some student health information and health insurance information. The incident was reported by Montana State University Billings to the Montana Attorney General’s Office on January 5, and letters are going out today to affected students….

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Columbia Falls School District Number 6 notifies employees whose data may have been compromised by TheDarkOverlord

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Dissent

Interesting.  The Columbia Falls School District Number 6 in Montana, who had been attacked by TheDarkOverlord, sent out notification letters and notified the Montana Attorney General’s office on January 5. In their submission to Montana, they note that the breach began September 1, and ended on November 13.  In actuality, the November 13 date was…

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Coplin Health Systems notifies 43,000 patients after laptop stolen from employee’s car

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Dissent

I really think that if HHS/OCR handed out a few well-advertised very very large monetary penalties, maybe these unencrypted devices stolen from car incidents would decrease.  It really is ridiculous  that this is still happening in 2018.  It’s one thing if we’re talking about a small non-profit or something where they may not have resources…

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Police: Medical workers stole patient info for narcotic prescriptions

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Dissent

Many pet owners already know that a lot of medications used to treat humans are also used to treat other species. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised when veterinary personnel engage in wrongdoing to access medications. Ellen Eldridge reports on some recent insider wrongdoing cases that include one from a veterinary hospital: Shelby Oryan Scoville of…

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North Royalton hacker stole potentially embarrassing information from computers, feds say

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Dissent

Eric Heisig reports: Federal prosecutors accused a North Royalton man of creating a malware program named “Fruitfly” that he used to worm its way into thousands of computers nationwide, according to a news release. Phillip Durachinsky, 28, used the malware to steal people’s personal information, including usernames, passwords, financial records, medical records, photographs, internet searches…

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Dog-Walking App Exposed Home Addresses and Lockbox Codes

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Dissent

Oh good grief. You can’t even walk dogs without risking a breach of your personal information, it seems. My friend Sheila Kaplan sent this one along, as reported by Rolfe Winkler and Robert McMillan: Wag Labs Inc., the startup behind a popular dog-walking smartphone app, inadvertently exposed webpages showing customer information including addresses and lockbox codes that…

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