Katie Wedell reports: Community Mercy Health Partners, operator of the Springfield Regional Medical Center, has alerted patients to a data breach that occurred in February. Invoices for about 2,000 patients containing names, addresses, billing codes such as diagnosis and procedural codes, service dates and locations, and account balances were inadvertently sent to incorrect people. Read more on…
Month: April 2015
Sony files Motion to Dismiss class-action; argues no ID theft = no standing
Josh Dickey reports: No one has been the victim of identity theft in the five months since the cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment exposed reams of sensitive data, so a class-action lawsuit should be dismissed, the studio argues in court documents acquired Friday by Mashable. Read more on Mashable.
Verifone statement on default password Z66831
Earlier today, DataBreaches.net asked Verifone for a comment or response to the report about an unnamed firm using the same default password for 25 years, as it was pretty easy to figure out from a Google search that an unnamed vendor was them. Gene Cyranski, Vice President of Zeno Group kindly sent this statement in response: The Verifone default…
Point-of-Sale vendor has used the same admin password for 25 years
Alan Martin reports: A major vendor of point-of-sale terminals has not changed the default passwords used on its devices in a quarter of a century, researchers have revealed at RSA 2015. The firm was not named during the presentation by Charles Henderson and David Byrne for security reasons, but it is said to be a widely used manufacturer. Although…
TX: Former Methodist Healthcare employee sentenced to more than 10 years; stole patient info for unemployment benefits
Guillermo Contreras reports on a case I don’t recall seeing before: A judge sentenced a former Methodist Healthcare worker to more than 10 years in federal prison Thursday for stealing patient identities and using the information to claim unemployment benefits. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ordered Andrea Nicole Brooks, 30, to serve 97 months for…
UK: University of Birmingham exam cheat jailed after hacking computers to boost marks
Ross McCarthy reports: A cheating student who hacked into the University of Birmingham’s computer system so he could get a better degree has been jailed for four months. Imran Uddin, 25, used a keyboard spying device to steal staff passwords and then upped five exam marks, including one from 57 per cent to 73 per cent. Read…