From the FFS department: Jackie Calloway reports: Anyone with a smartphone and a bar code app can scan any VA identification card issued since 2004 and the cardholder’s Social Security number immediately pops up on the screen. Tampa businessman and Army veteran Barry Landau wants answers. “I didn’t think that was possible.” Landau said. “The…
Month: November 2013
@Level7Crew Raided, Searched, Arrested, Bailed and Equipment Seized
Over the last 24 hrs i have been tipped off to a raid and arrest on the main member of @Level7Crew who is now due to face court for alleged hacking incidents. Recently Level7Crew had announced an operation due to start yesterday, 15th November 2013, against Skype for working with the government and spying on…
Warrant issued for Western Cape hacker
From News24: A warrant of arrest was authorised in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court, Cape Town, on Friday for a woman accused of hacking the internet system of Parliament’s operations officer. Cleopatra Mosana failed to appear in court. The warrant would be issued if she failed to appear by 11 December, a court official…
KY: Woman indicted for identity theft, stealing patient information to obtain loans
The Messenger-Inquirer in Kentucky reports that an Owensboro woman employed in a medical office was indicted by a federal grand jury this week on charges of using patient information to obtain loans. It’s one of those all-too-rare criminal HIPAA prosecutions: Ilene W. Bullington of the 200 block of Wilder Drive was indicted Wednesday. Bullington was…
WI: Flash drive with personal information of thousands of City of Milwaukee employees stolen from contractor’s car
Dan Walker reports: A flash drive containing the personal information of thousands of City of Milwaukee workers was stolen along with the car of an employee of a health care firm that contracts with the city. The employee worked for Dynacare Laboratories, a contractor used by Froedtert Health Workforce Health in connection with the city’s…
Experian reports yet another breach of its database via stolen or misused client login
No, it’s not one of the monster breaches that Brian Krebs reports on, but the kind of smaller breach I’ve been tabulating wherein Experian fails to adequately protect consumer credit reports from someone stealing or misusing a client’s login. In its most recent disclosure, dated November 8, Experian reported that individuals’ credit reports were accessed…