HSBC Finance Corporation has begun notifying an undisclosed number of consumers whose mortgage account information was inadvertently exposed on the Internet. The firm believes the exposure began sometime towards the end of 2014 and continued until March 27, 2015, when they learned of the breach. The breach affected customers of the firm’s subsidiaries, including Beneficial Financial I, Inc.,…
Month: April 2015
Crime Stoppers responds
If you’ve been following this week’s episode of “Breach Alert Hell,” DataBreaches.net has received a response from Ontario Crime Stoppers. I’ve posted their statement under the original breach report, here. I hope the other affected chapters are also taking steps to secure their sites better, but haven’t heard from them.
Texas Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Health Care Fraud Scheme
If you were ever a patient at one of these hospitals, you might want to get your medical records and check them for accuracy. Also check your Explanation of Benefits from your insurer to make sure that your records accurately reflect services you received and for what. Previous coverage of this case can be found…
CA: Stanislaus Surgical Hospital discloses breach
I am never happy when a breach notification letter tells you there’s been an “incident,” but they don’t actually tell you what the incident was. Today’s example: a breach notification from Stanislaus Surgical Hospital in Modesto, California. It might have been a hack from their description, but then again, could it be that someone stole patient…
Prosecutors suspect man hacked lottery computers to score winning ticket
Dan Goodin reports: Prosecutors say they have evidence indicating the former head of computer security for a state lottery association tampered with lottery computers prior to him buying a ticket that won a $14.3 million jackpot, according to a media report. Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51, may have inserted a thumbdrive into a highly locked-down computer that’s…
Taipei mayor’s office computer hacked by Chinese hacker: official
CNA reports: The computer on the desk of Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je’s secretary was hacked recently and investigators have traced the perpetrator to China, a Taipei city government official said Tuesday. Lee Wei-bin, the city’s information technology commissioner, told the City Council that a hacker installed a Trojan malware program into the secretary’s computer in…