Hackers Breach Networks of One of the Largest Medical Collection Agencies in the U.S. The American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) collects delinquent funds from patients of major health corporations like Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp, BioReference Laboratories and more. As part of their collection efforts, the company houses patient files for millions of U.S. patients. Unfortunately, their […]
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Fast Food Eatery Suffers Nationwide Data Breach Checkers, also known as Rally’s, is a fast-food restaurant located throughout the United States. Although its claim to fame was its burgers and fries, it’s now gaining recognition for something less appetizing. Late last week, the company confirmed select point-of-sale (PoS) systems were infected with malware. This has […]
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Another Year, Another Breach — and this one is major… It’s January 18, 2019 — not even a full month into a new year, and a major data breach has been reported, exposing a total of 2.7 billion different email and password combinations. The data set breached, deemed “Collection #1”, includes over 772 million email […]
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Breach Releases Personal Details for Millions of U.S. Citizens and Businesses Have you ever heard of Exactis? According to their website, the company states, “Exactis is a leading compiler and aggregator of premium business and consumer data”. They go on to tout “With over 3.5 billion records (updated monthly), our universal data warehouse is one […]
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WordPress Plugin Leaves Users Vulnerable Disqus, a popular WordPress plugin, revealed they were the victims of a data breach. Disqus is used for bloggers to allow individuals to comment on their articles. The hack began in July of 2012, and could be one of the longest undetected breaches, as it was just recently discovered. On […]
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A privacy rights organization is tracking the ever increasing number of data breaches.
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A stunning new report details the painful amount of time it takes for serious data breaches to be discovered.
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