On January 13, 2015, Park ‘N Fly (“PNF”) began notifying customers of a security compromise involving payment card data processed through its e-commerce website. PNF has been working continuously to understand the nature and scope of the incident, and has engaged third-party data forensics experts to assist with its investigation. The security compromise has been addressed, we…
Month: February 2015
It may look good, but that data breach report is not necessarily accurate
Two analyses of data breaches in 2014 have been released within the past month. One is Gemalto’s annual Breach Level Index report (pdf), which is based on 1,541 breach reports resulting in 1,023,108,267 breached records. The other is Risk Based Security’s Data Breach Quick View (pdf), which is based on 3,014 incidents exposing 1,068,191,345 records. How can an analysis that…
GA: Nurse Indicted On Health Care Fraud, Identity Theft
Tasnim Shamma reports: A wellness nurse practitioner in Stone Mountain allegedly pocketed more than $1 million by charging insurance companies for services she never performed. This week, a federal grand jury indicted her on charges of health care fraud and identity theft. […] The indictment says Patterson first started filing false claims while working part-time at the Family…
CDPH Issues Penalties to Hospitals for Privacy Breaches (Updated)
You know all those monetary penalties HHS generally doesn’t hand out? Well, the state of California does when it enforces Section 1280.15 of the California Health and Safety Code. Earlier this year, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced it had issued monetary penalties this year to the following hospitals after investigations into privacy breaches. Links below…
Google Vietnam hacked and defaced by Lizard Squad
Vijay reports: The infamous band of hackers, Lizard Squad today hacked and defaced Google Vietnam’s home page. The attack started at around 12.00 pm Vietnam time and many Internet users in Vietnam were unable to get access to google.com.vn. The defaced screen showed a image of a teenager holding a iPhone and a video along with…
IL: Midlothian cops pay ransom to retrieve data from hacker
Gregory Pratt reports: A south suburban police department paid a $500 ransom to an unidentified hacker to regain access to data from a police computer the hacker managed to disable, records show. Midlothian in January was hit with a form of computer virus called Cryptoware, said Calvin Harden Jr., an IT vendor who works with…