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Did the Facebook Leak Impact You?

Kayla Elliott / April 10, 2018

Find Out If Your Information Was Harvested from Facebook Facebook, continues to work toward rebuilding their brand after facing a major security scandal alongside London’s elections consultancy, Cambridge Analytica. Reports have confirmed personal data was harvested from the social media giant from Cambridge Analytica. It is believed, the election firm then used the data to

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MailChimp Leaks Respondents’ Email Addresses

Kayla Elliott / January 19, 2018

MailChimp Finds Major Error in System MailChimp, an email distribution site, has found a major privacy error within their systems. The error is believed to be in every link sent out in all of the emails they’ve distributed. For instance, a website link shares the users current and past webpages visited and the unsubscribe link

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Colorado Medical Practice Suffers Ransomware and Potential Breach

Kayla Elliott / December 28, 2017

Longs Peak Family Practice in Colorado Suffers Cyber Attacks Longs Peak Family Practice in Longmont, Colorado suffered a ransomware attack in early November. According to their public statement, the facility did not pay the ransom. Instead they were able to remediate the encrypted files using backups. A few days after the ransomware attack, the IT

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NSA Leak Leaves 100 GB of Classified Data Exposed

Kayla Elliott / November 29, 2017

NSA Leak Leaves Army Intelligence Data Open to Public The NSA leaks just won’t seem to stop. The first breach dates back to 2013, with multiple falling thereafter. Some of the security breaches have led to NSA contractors facing criminal charges due to their part in the security issues. Perhaps the most infamous NSA leak

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California Hospital Agrees to $2M Settlement After Breach

Kayla Elliott / November 27, 2017

California Medical Facility Owes $2M After Reaching Settlement with the State Cottage Hospital was the victim of a breach that lasted a whopping three years. From 2011 to 2013, a security breach left 50,000 patient records exposed to anyone and everyone who completed a basic Google search. The information available online included patient names, addresses,

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Uber Fails to Disclose Security Breach

Kayla Elliott / November 22, 2017

Uber Suffer Security Breach, Then Fails to Properly Inform Uber has found themselves in serious trouble, after officials found the company suffered a security breach last year and went to great lengths to cover it up. Instead of properly informing the 57 million customers and drivers the breach impacted, the chief security officer paid the

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Your Weekly IT Recap

Kayla Elliott / November 3, 2017

Top 5 IT stories for the week of October 30th Hilton settles for $700,000 after 2015 breach – In 2015 Hilton suffered two security breaches. Combined these two breaches resulted in over 350,000 credit card numbers being stolen. Although, this may not even be the biggest issue. Hilton failed to notify the victims of the

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Equifax Suffers Largest Breach of 2017

Kayla Elliott / September 7, 2017

143 Million Equifax Consumer Files Breached Equifax, a provider of consumer credit scores, was just confirmed as a victim of a data breach. The incident resulted in 143 million customer files being compromised. Therefore, this is one of the biggest breaches in U.S. history, and the largest reported in 2017. The hackers were infiltrating the

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Fish Tank Creates Gateway for Security Breach

Kayla Elliott / July 25, 2017

Security Breach Executes From Fish Tank The concept of smart devices leaving people and companies vulnerable for cyber attacks is nothing new. However, hackers using a smart fish tank to breach the cyber security of an unnamed North American casino, is a first. Hackers breached the fish tank, then scanned the system for any additional

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