Alex Burness has an update to a breach recently noted on this blog: Boulder Community Health has now identified a total of 16 patients — up from nine Wednesday — who have received letters from an anonymous source, containing copies of their own medical records stolen from an undetermined area around the hospital’s Foothills campus. In…
Month: May 2014
Autistic Hacker, “Eekdacat,” Helped FBI Nail Anonymous hacker, “Kayla”
William Bastone and Andrew Goldberg report: In an effort to identify leaders of Anonymous, the FBI arrested an autistic New York man and then used him as a cooperating witness to help snare a notorious fellow hacker who was subsequently indicted for his central role in a series of high-profile online attacks, The Smoking Gun…
CN: 100,000 Graduate Candidates’ Information Leaked?
Many on-job postgraduates applying for master degrees in China are fearing a possible leak of their personal information, the Wuhan Evening News reports on Sunday. It’s reported that many of the candidates have been receiving phone calls and text messages touting test questions and answers since they signed up for this year’s degree examination in…
FL: Hollywood Man Pleads Guilty In Million Dollar Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Judes Celestin, 36, of Hollywood, pled guilty for his role in an identity theft tax refund scheme that resulted in the receipt of approximately $1 million in…
Federal court dismisses LabMD's complaint against the FTC
Well, only minutes ago I had said Judge Duffey of the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia might still be persuaded by the government’s arguments about jurisdiction, however annoyed he appeared with the FTC. And I was right. He just dismissed LabMD’s complaint, finding that the complaint was not ripe for review because…
No southern comfort for the FTC in a Georgia federal court?
If federal judge William S. Duffey, Jr. in the Northern District of Georgia decides his court has jurisdiction to hear LabMD’s challenge to the FTC’s authority to enforce data security for HIPAA-covered entities, the FTC may be in for a bumpy ride. In a hearing on May 7, Judge Duffey noted how burdensome consent orders…