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Guess How Long It Takes For Thieves to Use Stolen Data?

The FTC recently did an experiment to see how quickly thieves used stolen data after it was posted on the dark web. They created 100 fictitious consumers and gave them credit cards or bitcoin wallets.  Each fictitious consumer had a name, email and passwords as well. They posted the data twice – first on April […]

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More Healthcare Breaches, Record Fines and Other Issues

Another day, another healthcare ransomware attack.  Erie County Medical Center and Terrace View long term care in Buffalo, New York have been dealing with a ransomware attack for about 10 days now.  On April 9th, a Sunday, the computers got hit by what they are only calling a virus, but according to someone I talked […]

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Medsec vs. St. Jude – Security Research Version 2

About four months, a security firm named Medsec discovered some flaws in St Jude Medical’s cardiac implantable products.  The accepted way to deal with this is to privately let the manufacturer know what you found, let them fix it and then release your research. In this case, Medsec had been told that St. Jude would […]

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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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Insurers Say Cancer Center “On Its Own”

I wrote about 21st Century Oncology in March (see post here) when the FBI came knocking on their door.  The result?  2.2 million records compromised.  At that time they said that they likely did not have enough insurance to cover the costs of the breach. Fast forward six months. Law360 is reporting that Charter Oak […]

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