OkHello provides a free group video chat service. Its app is available on the App Store and on Google Play. If you’ve ever used it, your details may be in others’ hands right now. According to their Privacy Policy, OkHello collects a lot of personal information about users, including geolocation data and information from Facebook…
Month: December 2015
Ashley Madison hack steals man’s job, wife — and mind
In the wake of the Ashley Madison hack, we read a few reports that suggested that the revelations may have contributed to a few suicides. There is still fallout happening from that breach and data dump. Dean Balsamini reports: A prominent New Jersey educator lost his job, his wife, his mind and possibly his freedom —…
Companies fail to report breaches more often than realized
Jigsaw Security Analytics posted an interesting report today. Over the past few months we have been silently collecting data and comparing news articles to actual data that our OSINT-X platform has been monitoring. […] We setup a quick test plan and implemented the plan in OSINT-X to basically read news articles, pull out any references…
LA: Opelousas couple pleads guilty to identity theft
Do you really know who’s preparing your taxes? I’ve seen just soooo many cases of tax preparers stealing customers’ identity information for fraud schemes. Here’s another one: An employee of an Opelousas tax preparation business and her boyfriend pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing customers’ identities in order to pocket income tax refunds. Frances Owens, 36,…
WakeMed exposed patients’ PHI in bankruptcy claims uploaded to PACER: attorney
WRAL in North Carolina reports: A Cary law firm has filed a motion against WakeMed, accusing the hospital of releasing patients’ private information, including Social Security numbers, making them susceptible to identity theft. Cort Walker, a bankruptcy and civil business litigation attorney at Sasser Law Firm, said he noticed a problem while reviewing records WakeMed had…
IN: Founder of Empowerment Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Found Guilty of fraud, identity theft
Wanda C. Shorter, 43, of Elkhart, Indiana, was found guilty yesterday, after a four-day jury trial of all four counts charged by indictment in a health care billing fraud/aggravated identity theft case. According to documents in this case, Empowerment Non-Emergency Medical Transportation, Inc. (hereafter “Empowerment”) was an enrolled Medicaid provider. Defendant Wanda C. Shorter founded…