Lex18 reports: A Mount Sterling company is under investigation amid allegations of identity theft by an employee in the company’s human resources department. The Montgomery County Sheriff Department and the management of Cooper Standard are investigating allegations of identity theft by human resources employee. Read more on Lex18.
Month: August 2016
More details emerge on Jefferson Medical Associates incidents
So there’s a bit more to the incidents recently disclosed by Jefferson Medical Associates that I had reported here. Now WDAM reports that it was Chris Vickery who had discovered a misconfigured database and had alerted JMA. For their part, JMA is pretty much accusing Vickery of hacking them. Here we go again…. From WDAM’s…
Data Breach At Oracle’s MICROS Point-of-Sale Division
Brian Krebs reports: A Russian organized cybercrime group known for hacking into banks and retailers appears to have breached hundreds of computer systems at software giant Oracle Corp., KrebsOnSecurity has learned. More alarmingly, the attackers have compromised a customer support portal for companies using Oracle’s MICROS point-of-sale credit card payment systems. Asked this weekend for comment on rumors of a large…
Missouri man repeat offender on fraud and identity theft?
Veneta Rizvic reports: Eddie Lee Regans was indicted on fraudulent use of access devices, mail fraud and aggravated identity theft charges after allegedly using the personal information of several business customers to obtain credit for personal use. Regans, 50, of St. Louis, racked up charges of $89,000 between August 2015 and July 2016, according to the…
An Assessment of the Anthem Data Breach Litigation Rulings
David Silverman writes: [Eric’s intro: this blog post helps distill Judge Koh’s two rulings, In re Anthem Inc. Data Breach Litig., No. 15-MD-02617 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 16, 2016) (“Anthem I”) and In re Anthem Inc. Data Breach Litig., No. 15-MD-02617 (N.D. Cal. May 27, 2016) (“Anthem II”). These are complicated opinions, and I hope this post helps…
Nurse’s Gory Tweets Result in Lawsuit
Law360 reports: Allegations that a nurse at a major Chicago hospital tweeted about a shooting victim’s death and blood-soaked hospital room are a stunning cautionary tale that health care providers can use to hammer home how workers may be held liable for privacy lapses, attorneys say. A Chicago nurse allegedly tweeted this image of a…