Candice Nguyen reports: One of three defendants accused of bribing a former Camp Pendleton Marine and unlawfully accessing personal financial information of other service members has pleaded guilty. Nellie Noland worked for Romano’s Jewelers at one of its North County locations. In addition to pleading guilty, she has agreed to be a cooperating witness against…
Month: May 2015
NJ: Data breach involves Southwest Licking School District student info
Chad Klimack reports: Southwest Licking Local Schools is alerting parents to a data breach that could involve the release of student information, including names, addresses and even Social Security numbers. The breach could affect up to 113 students, Southwest Licking Superintendent Robert Jennell said. Southwest Licking officials are notifying all potentially impacted families via letter….
Former program director of Louisiana Health and Rehabilitation Options indicted on health care fraud, identify theft
Quincy Hodges reports: A former Louisiana Health and Rehabilitation Options program director was indicted on multiple charges of health care fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Walt Green said in a news release on Tuesday. A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging 49-year-old Shanta Barnes, of Baton Rouge, with obtaining oxycodone by fraud,…
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield discloses that hack in June 2014 affected 1.1 million members
From CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield: On May 20, 2015, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) announced that the company has been the target of a sophisticated cyberattack. The attackers gained limited, unauthorized access to a single CareFirst database. This was discovered as a part of the company’s ongoing Information Technology (IT) security efforts in the wake of…
NY: Bellevue Hospital notifying 3,300 patients of breach
Jacobi Medical Center wasn’t the only hospital run by the Health & Hospitals Corporation that reported a breach on April 28. Bellevue Hospital Center also reported one: The incident in question occurred on January 15, 2015 and was discovered on February 27, 2015 when, in the course of HHC’s monitoring of outgoing emails, we identified…
Cn: Hacker jailed for linking school website to pornography pages
Ke Jiayun reports: A hacker who gained control of a middle school’s website in Chongming County and linked it to pornography pages was sentenced to 10 months in jail for illegally controlling computers, Chongming County People’s Court said today in Shanghai. The man began hacking into systems three years ago and had broken into dozens…