Beginning in 2016, the computer hacking organization known as “The Dark Overlord,” began to target victims in the St. Louis, Missouri area, including various health care providers, several accounting firms, and a medical records company. By remotely accessing these victims’ computer networks without authorization, The Dark Overlord was able to obtain sensitive records and information,
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Centene announces search for missing hard drives containing PHI of 950,000 individuals
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
Centene Corporation, a health insurer headquartered in St. Louis, announced on January 25, in a press release that it is undertaking an, “ongoing comprehensive internal search for six hard drives that are unaccounted for in its inventory of information technology (IT) assets.”
The press release states that the hard drives contained the names, addresses,…