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Medicaid Hacked: Over 181,000 Records and 25,000 SSNs Stolen

Posted by timothy on from the those-damn-corporations dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Utah Department of Health has been hacked. 181,604 Medicaid and CHIP recipients have had their personal information stolen. 25,096 had their Social Security numbers (SSNs) compromised. The agency is cooperating with law enforcement in a criminal investigation. The hackers, who are believed to be located in Eastern Europe, breached the server in question on March 30, 2012."

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  1. Well said I must admit (adding fuel 2 a fire) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Also this is funny because show me this perfect security." - by Sycraft-fu (314770) on Sunday April 08, @09:29PM (#39615507)

    "Kernel.org was hacked, gnu.org was hacked, GitHub was hacked, BIND was hacked, and so on. So it isn't like just being open source and all that makes you immune. It seems that security holes happen, and that is just life.." - by Sycraft-fu (314770) on Sunday April 08, @09:29PM (#39615507)

    Let me add to your list, with details & verifying/backing reputable sources:

    KERNEL.ORG COMPROMISED - The Cracking of Kernel.org: (very bad - do you trust it now?)

    http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2321232/Kernelorg-Compromised

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    Linux.com pwned in fresh round of cyber break-ins: (lol)

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/12/more_linux_sites_down/

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    Mysql.com Hacked, Made To Serve Malware:

    http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/26/2218238/mysqlcom-hacked-made-to-serve-malware

    What's that site running? You guessed it - Linux -> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=mysql.com

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    London Stock Exchange serving malware:

    http://slashdot.org/submission/1484548/London-Stock-Exchange-Web-Site-Serving-Malware

    (I mean hey - NOT ONLY DID LINUX FALL FLAT ON ITS FACE less than a few minutes into the job http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/02/19/0147232/London-Stock-Exchange-Price-Errors-Emerged-At-Linux-Launch, & crash not only ONCE, but TWICE there? You see "Linux 'fine security'" in motion @ the LSE too!)

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    DUQU ROOTKIT/BOTNET BEING SERVED FROM LINUX SERVERS: (very recent):

    http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/30/1610228/duqu-attackers-managed-to-wipe-cc-servers

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    Linux Foundation, Linux.com Sites Down To Fix Security Breach: (lol)

    http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1325212/linux-foundation-linuxcom-sites-down-to-fix-security-breach

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    Linux's showing in CA's breached recently too? Ok: (very, Very, VERY BAD for ecommerce, online shopping, banking, etc./et al)

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=StartCom.com

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=GlobalSign.com

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=Comodo.com

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=DigiCert.com

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.gemnet.nl

    The list of CA Servers BREACHED that RUN LINUX (StartCom, GlobalSign, DigiCert, Comodo, GemNet)... per these articles verifying that:

    http://itproafrica.com/technology/security/cas-hacked/

    &

    http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/site-dutch-ca-gemnet-offline-after-web-server-attack-120811