Rodney Manly reports: A security breach that has compromised the credit and debit cards of recent customers at the Mellow Mushroom in Warner Robins is believed to have occurred outside the restaurant, police and the restaurant’s lawyer said Friday. “The breach happened either with the computing end of it or at the payment processing center….
Month: May 2010
Arlington Security Guard, Who Hacked into Hospital’s Computer System, Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges
Robert Wilonsky of the Dallas Observer reports that the Carrell Memorial Clinic hacker who stupidly posted videos of himself committing his crimes on You Tube has pleaded guilty. Although the case was previously covered on DataBreaches.net, Wilonsky’s blog entry provides a number of background links for those who want more of the earlier coverage, as…
GA: Health worker charged with ID theft
A former employee at an Albany doctor’s office is in jail charged with identity fraud. 44-year-old Sylvia Green, who worked at Albany OB-GYN, is charged with financial identity fraud. Investigators say Green, who worked as a phone nurse, refilling patients’ prescriptions, stole the identity of a patient and used her information to try to take…
Court rejects Qchex’s appeal
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed a lower court ruling against Qchex. The Federal Trade Commission had brought the action against Qchex, claiming that Qchex violated federal law by operating an online check creation and delivery service with inadequate safeguards in place to prevent fraud. The lower court’s decision, issued in February 2009,…
Laptop stolen from VA contractor contains veterans' personal data
I posted this yesterday to DataBreaches.net, but am posting it here, too, because even though the coverage so far doesn’t specifically mention that veterans’ health data were involved, it is a distinct possibility. Also, in updates to this story, it seems that the April 22 laptop theft affected 616 veterans, not 644 as originally reported:…
Los Angeles Firemen’s CU Has Data Breach
David Morrison reports: The $889 million Los Angeles Firemen’s Credit Union has notified some of its more than 28,000 members that private information may have been compromised. The May 10 letter from CEO Michael Maestro said that “an extremely small percentage” of member files were “not properly moved” when the CU relocated from an old…