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[author: Jane Anderson] ◆ A Texas Medicaid subcontractor has been terminated after a data breach caused by a ransomware attack originating from Russia exposed the personal information of tens of thousands of low-income residents. A spokesperson for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission also said that the agency did not learn about the extent of the attack, which occurred last April, until it received questions about the incident from The Dallas Morning News. [1] According to news reports, the initial communications to the state agency from the contractor, Accenture, described a mu...

Utah Company Stored Passport Scans on Unsecured Server A Utah company has exposed the sensitive information of more than 50,000 customers by storing data on an unsecured server. The breach at Premier Diagnostics was discovered on February 22 by cybersecurity expert Bob Diachenko at consumer privacy watchdog Comparitech. Sensitive customer data stored in a publicly accessible database included scans of passports, health insurance ID cards, and driver's licenses.  Researchers found that the data of around 52,000 customers may have been impacted in the secur...