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What Do Hackers Do With Stolen Healthcare Data

Why do hackers steal medical and health insurance information and what do they do with it?  Why does your personal health information sell for 25 to 50 times what credit card information sells for? The first answer?  Your credit card information is typically toast within 30 days of the first use, sometimes sooner.  And of […]

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Learning About Ransomware – The Hard Way

A small New England retailer learned about ransomware the hard way.  After an employee clicked on a link, that system was infected with Cryptowall. The malware encrypted, among other files, the company’s accounting software. The accounting software did not live on that user’s computer;  it lived on the network, but since that user had access […]

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DarkOverlord Moves From Healthcare To Financial Services

The DarkOverlord is a hacking group that came to light midyear when it announced it was selling 9+ million patient records on the dark web for around a half million dollars in Bitcoin.   That breach apparently includes Socials, dates of birth and other information. Now they have moved on to financial services with a […]

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