Illinois health department exposed over 700,000 residents’ personal data for years

Snippet of Article: "Officials said the exposed data included personal information on 672,616 individuals who are Medicaid and Medicare Savings Program recipients. The data included their addresses, case numbers, and demographic data ...The exposed data also included names, addresses, case statuses, and other information relating to 32,401 individuals in receipt of services from the department’s Division of Rehabilitation Services...."

Source: techcrunch.com

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NordVPN Denies Breach After Hacker Leaks Data

Snippet of Article: "...The VPN company has conducted an investigation after a threat actor claimed to have hacked its systems. ...The attacker publicly released some sample data and made all the information available for download to the cybercrime forum’s premium users. ...“The claims that our internal Salesforce development servers were breached are false. The leaked elements, such as the specific API tables and database schemas can only be artifacts of an isolated third-party test environment, containing only dummy data used for functionality checks,” NordVPN said. “While no data in the dump points to NordVPN, we have contacted the vendor for additional information,” the company added. "

Source: www.securityweek.com

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