The following press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York provides an update on a case noted previously on this site involving a hack of JP Morgan Chase to alter prepaid debit cards issued by the American Red Cross for disaster relief victims: June 29 – Earlier today at the…
Month: July 2015
ME: Windham Man Sentenced to Three Months for Fraud and Identity Theft
Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Manuel J. Arruda, 46, of Windham, Maine was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to three months in prison and two years of supervised release for mail and access device fraud and identity theft. He was also ordered to pay $11,962.85…
East Sussex NHS Trust apologies over data breach
BBC reports: More than 3,000 patients have been sent a letter of apology by the NHS after a computer memory stick containing their personal information was found by a member of the public. East Sussex NHS Trust said the stick had been left by a member of staff near a trust building. The information was…
Insurer Claims That Hi-Tech Thieves Had Inside Help In Record Eli Lilly Heist
Edmund H. Mahony reports: In an effort to recover tens of millions in losses, the insurer for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is trying to prove that lax control over confidential, computer data by Lilly’s security contractor enabled thieves to use detailed schematics to carry out brazen warehouse burglaries in Enfield and elsewhere across the country….
In: BSNL site hacked
R. Dinakaran reports: BSNL’s Telecommunications Journal website has been hacked by AnonOpsIndia. The ‘Anonymous’ group that describes itself as “#OpIndia | Expect Us! ~ Anonymous #Hacktivists” in its Twitter handle, has added one more page to the journal website – http://tj.bsnl.co.in/tjeditions/NOV14/anonops.html – listing its demands to the Central Government. The group has posted a message on…
Stolen laptop contained UCSF research participants’ health & insurance info
The University of California – San Francisco posted this notice on their site on July 2: UC San Francisco is alerting individuals about a burglary involving an unencrypted laptop belonging to a faculty member in the Cardiac Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia Service that contained some personal, research and health information. While there is no evidence of…