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SC: Dorchester School District 2 says $2,900 ransom paid to recover data after server breach, but no identities stolen

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Dissent

Drew Tripp reports: Dorchester School District 2 officials say no student or staff member’s identity information was stolen or compromised in a ransomware attack on the district’s computer network servers over the summer, but that some files were corrupted and lost, and the district was forced to pay a ransom to regain access to other…

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Watchdog pressed to probe post-data breach services

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Dissent

Morgan Chalfant reports: Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are pressing a government watchdog to further investigate whether existing credit monitoring services do enough to protect consumers affected by data breaches. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report in March on identity theft services offered by the federal government and private companies…

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GAO to agencies: Stop using Social Security numbers for everything

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Dissent

There really is such as a thing as “obvious.”  Isn’t there? Adam Stone reports: Federal agencies continue to over-collect, over-use and over-display Social Security numbers, leading to the an unnecessarily high risk of identity theft. That’s the latest from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. In a recent report GAO declares that a decade’s worth of…

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Largest healthcare provider in western New York successfully phished in two consecutive months

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Dissent

Having to notify almost 2,800 patients because an employee fell for a phishing attack is not something most healthcare providers would exactly relish. Having to notify 2,800 patients in July and then another 744 patients in August because there were phishing incidents in two consecutive months, well,….. ouch. But that’s the situation Kaleida Health in…

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Victim of TheDarkOverlord notifies HHS that 6,642 patients’ data were hacked

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Dissent

Back in June, this site noted that the majority of victims of TheDarkOverlord had not reported the claimed breaches to HHS and that this site had filed a Freedom of Information request with HHS seeking any records on those breaches. That FOIA request included an incident involving the medical practice of Drs. Feinstein & Roe…

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Personal info, Social Security numbers for lacrosse players posted on MLL website

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Dissent

WHEC reports: Major League Lacrosse is investigating a massive data leak that exposed every individual player’s personal information. According to an email the league sent to all players Monday evening — that was in turn sent to News10NBC by a player — a link on one of their website pages mistakenly re-directed browsers to a…

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