[HN Gopher] 4M Coloradans notified their medical data was expose...
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4M Coloradans notified their medical data was exposed in MOVEit
incident
Author : LinuxBender
Score : 16 points
Date : 2023-08-15 20:51 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.scmagazine.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.scmagazine.com)
| karaterobot wrote:
| > These files contained the following information: full names,
| Social Security numbers, Medicaid ID numbers, Medicare ID
| numbers, dates of birth, home addresses and other contact
| information, demographic or income information, clinical and
| medical information, and health insurance information.
|
| Was this information not at least encrypted? I have zero doubt
| that, as a business associate for a covered entity, Maximus will
| be held responsible for all 4 million of those HIPAA violations,
| and will not only fix their controls, but speedily pay the fines.
| adolph wrote:
| Here is a better article on the subject.
|
| https://securityaffairs.com/149498/data-breach/colorado-hcpf...
|
| It is related to the CVE's of last May/June. Not encrypting PII
| at rest is malpractice. At the same time, not enough is being
| done to de-risk exposure, which for any person is just a matter
| of when not if.
|
| _The vulnerability is a SQL injection vulnerability, it can be
| exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorized
| access to MOVEit Transfer's database._
|
| Its the year 2023 and "Bobby Tables" is still at it...
|
| https://xkcd.com/327/
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