Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the re-arrest of ringleader Tyrone “Reece” Lee and former bank teller Nadia Figueroa on a 50-count indictment in Orange County Supreme Court. The defendants, who are charged with running an identity-theft ring that stole over $457,000 from customers of Wachovia Bank (now Wells Fargo), both pleaded guilty earlier…
Month: May 2015
NY: Jacobi Medical Center notifies 90,060 patients after employee emailed PHI to her personal account and new email address at another employer
Jacobi Medical Center, part of the New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation, issued this statement on April 28: The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) this week began to notify about 90,000 HHC patients about the possible disclosure of some of their protected health information (PHI) that may have occurred when a…
House OGR questions FTC’s Ramirez about standards for data security
In a hearing yesterday, Rep. Darrell Issa of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform questioned FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez about standards for data security enforcement. And although I often disagree with Rep. Issa, I do agree that entities need to know what they need to do to have safe harbor from an FTC enforcement…
House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform staff report slams Tiversa, cautions federal agencies about using them (updated with Tiversa’s response)
If you thought former Tiversa employee Rick Wallace’s testimony in FTC v. LabMD was sensational, wait until you read a staff report prepared for Darrell Issa, then-Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The 99-page report, prepared in January but embargoed until after Wallace’s testimony, delves into Tiversa’s business practices and problems with the…
Login system supplies fake passwords to hackers
Jeremy Kirk reports: A team of researchers has developed a system that makes it much harder for hackers to obtain usable passwords from a leaked database, which could help blunt the damage from a data breach. The system is described in a research paper that has been submitted for consideration at the 2015 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference,…
Female hacker arraigned for hacking and bank fraud in Lagos
Last month, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) announced the arraignment of an individual on charges of hacking a bank. This week, they announce an arraignment in a second hacking case: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday May 14, 2015 arraigned one Mary Ozala before Justice Kudirat. A. Jose of the Lagos State High…