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Data breach affects almost 400,000 Community Health Plan members (UPDATE2)

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Dissent

Bob Young reports: Almost 400,000 current and former members of the Community Health Plan of Washington have had personal information, including Social Security numbers, exposed in a data breach. The nonprofit, which provides health insurance through Medicaid in Washington, is sending letters to 381,534 individuals Wednesday notifying them of the invasion and steps they can…

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State rebuts fault in Frederick County Public Schools data breach

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Dissent

Jeremy Bauer-Wolf reports: Frederick County Public Schools said on Monday that it is likely that students’ personal information was stolen from a state government computer system, a claim that Maryland’s education department nevertheless rebuts. Names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of about 1,000 former Frederick County students who attended school between November 2005 and…

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Kanye West Hospital Records Breached, May Lead To UCLA Medical Center Firings

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Dissent

Shari Weiss reports: … It’s said that over the course of his stay, an unknown number of staffers tried to gain illegal access to West’s electronic medical records. Of course, like with every patient, they were to be protected by HIPAA, a law that mandates private health information only be shared with those who have been…

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CT: 3 arrested in fraud scheme that allegedly used veterans’ information

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Dissent

Fox61 reports: STAFFORD SPRINGS — Exactly nine months after police began investigating the possibility that a local company was committing fraud and larceny, three people have been arrested. […] It was determined that the employees of Shark Cycle were stealing the personal information — names, birthday and social security numbers — of customers who were veterans. They…

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Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is sending emails to users about a Lynda.com data breach

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Dissent

Neowin reports: LinkedIn has begun informing Lynda.com users of a data breach, emailing customers to say that “an unauthorized third party breached a database that included some of your Lynda.com learning data, such as contact information and courses viewed.” The company says that there is no evidence to support the thought that passwords were included…

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Bleacher Reports Suffers Data Breach as “Unauthorized Party” Accesses User Data

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Sports news portal Bleacher Report announced today a security breach that affected readers that signed up for accounts on the site. At the time of writing the number of affected users isn’t known, and a request for comment from Bleeping Computer was not returned at the time of publishing. According to an…

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