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What to Do If You’re a Victim of a Hospital Data Breach

Identity IQ

Earlier this month, UMass Memorial Health alerted patients who were affected by the hospital data breach. In a notice to affected patients, the hospital disclosed that an unauthorized person accessed employee emails between June 2020 and January 2021 but was unable to say the level to which the emails were viewed.

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ROUNDTABLE: Why T-Mobile’s latest huge data breach could fuel attacks directed at mobile devices

The Last Watchdog

The attacker claims to have compromised an end-of-lifed GPRS system that was exposed to the internet and was able to pivot from it to the internal network, where they were able to launch a brute force authentication attack against internal systems. Most immediately is the ubiquity of 2-factor authentication.

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Worst Passwords of 2020 List

SecureWorld News

There has probably been a time in your life when you created a new account for a website or service and chose a password that was less than ideal. NordPass, a password manager company, recently released its list of the worst passwords of 2020. The 20 worst passwords of 2020.

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Security researchers applaud Google’s move towards multi-factor authentication

SC Magazine

A sign is displayed at the Google outdoor booth during exhibitor setups for CES 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Google announced that it will automatically enroll users in multifactor authentication – what they are calling two-step verification. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images).

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Lock down your Neopets account: Data breach being investigated

Malwarebytes

The data in question had apparently been compromised prior to the current owners, Jumpstart, acquiring Neopets. In 2020, there were claims of ways to potentially gain access to user accounts. Change your password , as Neopets suggests. This may be time to start looking at a password manager, for added safety.

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LastPass hack caused by an unpatched Plex software on an employee’s PC

Security Affairs

The LastPass data breach was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of the company updates. The security breach suffered by LastPass was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of its engineers. ” reads the advisory published by Plex.

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COMB: Over 3.2 Billion Unique Email and Password Combinations Leaked on Underground Forum

Hot for Security

The mother of all data leaks, dubbed “Compilation of Many Breaches” (COMB) by its uploader, includes unique email and password combinations from more than 250 previous data breaches, such as Netflix, LinkedIn and Exploit.in. Remember, the information may be stale or old, but user data has no expiration date.

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