From the FTC: An Atlanta-based health billing company and its former CEO have settled Federal Trade Commission charges they misled thousands of consumers who signed up for an online billing portal by failing to adequately inform them that the company would seek highly detailed medical information from pharmacies, medical labs and insurance companies. In a…
Month: December 2014
Former college professor/FBI informant indicted on federal charges of credit card fraud, identity theft
James F. McCardy reports: A former college professor and FBI informant currently serving a four-year sentence in federal prison for mortgage fraud was indicted Tuesday on charges of operating an identity theft and credit card fraud scheme. Paul Tomko, 41, formerly of Cleveland, is charged in the indictment with bank fraud, credit card fraud, wire…
More from the Sony Pictures hack: Budgets, Layoffs, HR scripts, and 3,800 SSN
Kevin Roose reports: Yesterday, I reported on a spreadsheet apparently taken from Sony Pictures Entertainment, one of the largest and most powerful studios in Hollywood, by a group of hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace. The document, which listed the names, titles, and salaries of more than 6,000 Sony Pictures employees including senior executives (and may have revealed…
National Notification Law Unlikely
From the tell-us-something-we-didn’t-know-already dept., Mark Gerlach reports: Although cyberattacks are becoming more prevalent, breach notification laws in the U.S. lack synergy, said the opening panelists at ALM’s Cybersecurity and Data Protection Legal Summit Tuesday morning at The Harvard Club in New York City. […] “I wouldn’t hold your breath for a national breach notification,” said…
More Trouble For Sony? PlayStation Servers ‘Used To Spread Stolen Data’
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Things could be about to go from bad to worse for Sony. Having been allegedly hacked by a crew going by the name of Guardians of Peace (GOP) and an alleged 27GB of data chucked on numerous peer-to-peer file sharing networks, it’s now emerged PlayStation Network web servers are being used to hand out…
FBI alerts U.S. companies of malware following Sony breach
Maritza Santillan reports: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert to U.S. companies on Monday warning them of malicious software following the recent large-scale network disruption at Sony Pictures Entertainment. According to Reuters, the five-page confidential alert included details of how Sony’s attack was successfully carried out, as well as advice on how…