Tag Archives: Virginia Department of Health Professions

Virginia DOE data breach affects more than 100,000

The Virginia state government has suffered another major data breach, their second this year. The most recent occurred September 21 when an unencrypted flash drive containing the names, Social Security numbers and employment and demographic information of 103,000 people was lost.
Those affected either took an adult education class between April 2007 and January 2009, or [...]

LifeLock review: Virginia Dept. of Health Professions extortionist demands $10 million

A wise-ass hacker has broken into the Virginia Department of Health Professionals, and is demanding $10 million in ransom for the return of the stolen information. According to Wikileaks.org, the hacker stole the data, encrypted it, and posted the following ransom not on the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program website:
“I have your shit. In *my* possession, [...]