A case that included some medical ID theft for health care fraud: HOUSTON – Andrea Michelle Tellison, 47, has been convicted today of 14 counts of health care fraud and seven counts of aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury returned its verdicts this afternoon following three days of trial and…
Month: April 2014
US charges 25 in Fla. in ID theft, tax fraud case
Curt Anderson of Associated Press reports: Twenty-five people accused of using thousands of stolen identities to claim $36 million in fraudulent tax refunds have been arrested in the latest South Florida sweep, federal authorities said Thursday. Among those charged in 19 separate cases is a middle school food service worker who swiped the identities of…
RRRC Rat Resource & Research Center Hacked, Defaced and Data Leaked
Today a hacktivist who uses the handle @G3NTbl4ck has announced a breach on Rat Resource & Research Center. The announcement has been made from twitter and the leaked data first uploaded to MEGA as a 14MB sqlmap log file that contains 8 administrator accounts of which most appear to belong to staff from University of Missouri which…
Data breach lawsuit against LinkedIn whittled down to claimed misrepresentations of “industry standard” security
Lisa Hoffman reports: A putative class action against LinkedIn that follows a computer attack that made public millions of users’ passwords, has been pared down. The case will proceed with a focus on allegations that the professional networking site misrepresented the strength of its security protections. Judge Edward Davila refused on March 28 to dismiss…
Anti-media cybercrime spree continues: Al Arabiya hacked by NullCrew
Violet Blue reports that NullCrew teamed up with the Horsemen of Lulz and used the same unpatched vulnerability in Zimbra that it used to hack Comcast to now hack Al Arabiya, the second largest media company in the Middle East. Read more on ZDNet.
Kaiser Permanente Northern California Department of Research to notify participants of potential breach
Kaiser Permanente Northern California Department of Research is notifying patients of a breach that they believe occurred in October 2011. OK, now that I have your attention, on or about April 3, they will begin sending out breach notification letters that say that on February 12, 2014, they discovered that a server used to store…