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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. Verizon Drops Yahoo Acquisition Price by $350M Following Data Breach Disclosures GeekWire Verizon said it will pay $4.48 billion to acquire Yahoo’s operating business, a reduction of $350 million off the ori
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. MLB Fines Cardinals $2 Million for Computer Hack St. Louis Business Journal Major League Baseball on Monday afternoon ordered the St. Louis Cardinals to pay $2 million and turn over two 2017 draft selections t
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Complied by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. 2016 Healthcare Data Breaches Largely From Employee Error HealthITSecurity.com The business industry had a total of 494 reported data breaches, while … Healthcare data breaches also exposed the most Soci
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. Data Downer: Hackers Will Grow Increasingly Bold in 2017 Los Angeles Times A few weeks ago, Yahoo reported what is believed to be the single largest security breach ever — 1 billion user accounts potentially
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. ‘GIVE ME 500 BITCOINS OR I START EXECUTING PATIENTS’ NEWS.com.au AUSTRALIAN hospitals are increasingly at risk of cyber criminal gangs who seek to steal patient data … THE TREND OF INDUSTRIALIZED HACKING
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. Data Protection Disputes to Soar Over Next Five Years Infosecurity Magazine Experts are urging organizations to brace themselves for a surge in data protection-related legal disputes over the next five years,
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provided by Richard Sheinis, Esq. Adult FriendFinder hit with one of the biggest data breaches ever, report says Washington Post LeakedSource said the alleged breach includes nearly 340 million accounts from flagship site Adult FriendFinder, pl
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Compiled by Richard Sheinis, Esq. Top 4 Healthcare Data Breaches Stem from Hacking Incident HealthITSecurity.com While 2016 is not yet complete, there have already been approximately 250 reported cases of potential healthcare data breaches affe
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. Exclusive: J&J warns patients of insulin pump cyber bug, low hacking risk Reuters Johnson & Johnson is telling patients that it has learned of a cyber security bug in one of its insulin pumps that a
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. Yahoo facing lawsuits in the wake of massive data breach CNN Money Yahoo is facing lawsuits from people who fear their accounts have been hacked and claim the company was “grossly negligent,” putting the