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Daily News Stuff 25 January 2025

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  • Computers were a mistake: UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected around 190 million people in America — nearly double previous estimates.  (Tech Crunch)

    That's...  Rather a lot.
    In its data breach notice, Change Healthcare said that the cybercriminals stole names and addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and government identity documents, which included Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and passport numbers.  The stolen health data also includes diagnoses, medications, test results, imaging, and care and treatment plans, as well as health insurance information . Change said the data also includes financial and banking information found in patient claims.
    So, basically, everything.
    UnitedHealth's spokesperson said the company was "not aware of any misuse of individuals' information as a result of this incident and has not seen electronic medical record databases appear in the data during the analysis."
    But did you actually look?

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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:11 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 What happened in 1958?

Posted by: furball321 at Saturday, January 25 2025 11:20 PM (As8gg)

2 I vaguely recall Richard Hamming talking about early compilers in his 'Art' book, but for whatever reason I had a feeling he talked about an earlier date. 

Wiki trawl looks like maybe Lisp or Algol, or maybe something to do with ICs.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Sunday, January 26 2025 02:47 AM (rcPLc)

3 Nothing? Well, hardly anything(at least on HMS Pinafore).

Posted by: Joe Redfield at Sunday, January 26 2025 01:37 PM (KOtXO)

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