Carten Cordell reports: A Houston man pleaded guilty on May 9 to claiming fraudulent tax refunds with information stolen from an IRS database. Denzel Roberts, 24, is charged with theft of public money for his role in a scheme to file bogus tax returns with information taken from the “Get Transcript” database, an online feature that…
Month: May 2016
Utkal admission offline as hackers strike again
Express News Service reports: The PG Council of Utkal University on Tuesday was forced to shift from the ongoing e-admission to offline admission following attempts to hack the admission website (www.eadmission.utkaluniversity.ac.in). Server of the website was deactivated by the university officials on Monday evening as there were frequent attempts to breach the security walls. This…
UserVoice Security Incident
As posted on their site yesterday: Please see our blog post from May 9, 2016 announcing a security incident at https://community.uservoice.com/blog/uservoice-security-incident-notification/ What Happened? In late April, the UserVoice security team learned that an unauthorized party illegally accessed one of UserVoice’s backend reporting systems and was able to view user data on a small subset of users….
Personal information displayed to others on NY’s health exchange website
Kimberly Howard reports: The New York State Department of Health is responding to an issue with the state’s health exchange website that allowed users to see the private information of other people. One user, who did not want to speak on camera, sent CBS6 a screen grab of what he says he saw when he…
Breach mitigation services raise other concerns
A number of commenters on this blog have raised concerns about giving their identity information to a firm that has been contracted to provide identity theft protection in the wake of a breach. The recurring theme is, “Why should I trust yet more people with my SSN?” And for how long will that firm retain…
Ontario health privacy breach notification bill passes third reading
Canadian Underwriter notes: An Ontario government bill proposing to increase fines, to $500,000, for health privacy violations recently passed third reading at Queen’s Park in Toronto. Bill 119 proposes some changes to Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). Read more on Canadian Underwriters.