WISN reports that Ozaukee County workers became victims of tax refund fraud after their W-2 and Form 1095 tax information was compromised in a hack of GreenShades‘ web site. The county employees use GreenShades for tax filing. Greenshades learned of the breach last month when it noticed some suspicious logins on February 14. As of last night, there were reportedly…
Month: March 2016
JP: Ezaki Glico reports possible customer data breach
JIJI reports: Confectionery maker Ezaki Glico Co. said Monday that personal data on users of its online shopping site may have been compromised following unauthorized accesses. Up to 83,194 sets of personal data may have been stolen, including 43,744 that contained credit card information, according to the firm. Ezaki Glico is investigating the incident through…
Sask. health region employee who ‘snooped’ on 900+ records won’t get job back
Micki Cowan reports: A Saskatchewan X-ray technologist won’t be getting her job back after she was fired for “snooping” on hundreds of patient records without due cause, a breach of the Health Information Protection Act. A recently released labour arbitration decision shows that the employee — who claimed she was looking at the records for “educational purposes” — has been denied a…
Update on Canadian Data Breach Regulations: Consultation
Timothy M. Banks of Dentons writes: Innovations, Science and Economic Development Canada has issued a consultation paper asking Canadians what should be included in new data breach regulations that will be made under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act(PIPEDA). The consultation will close on May 31, 2016. Following this consultation process, the Canadian Government will publish…
IRS Suspends Insecure ‘Get IP PIN’ Feature
Brian Krebs reports: Citing ongoing security concerns, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has suspended a service offered via its Web site that allowed taxpayers to retrieve so-called IP Protection PINs (IP PINs), codes that the IRS has mailed to some 2.7 million taxpayers to help prevent those individuals from becoming victims of tax refund fraud two years in…
South Bay Victim of Medical ID Theft Says Brother Should be in Prison
Vicky Nguyen and David Paredes report: South Bay man Ronnie Bogle gave an emotional courtroom statement at the sentencing hearing for his brother Gary Bogle, saying Gary “tortured” him for years by stealing his identity and using it for medical treatment at hospitals around the country. Read more on NBC.