Phoenix, Arizona – March 3, 2017 – Saliba’s Extended Care Pharmacy (“Saliba’s Pharmacy”) is notifying certain patients of the inadvertent e-mailing of December 2016 invoices, which contained patient names, addresses, account balances, and may have also included a description and dosage amount of prescription or over-the-counter medication or other pharmacy items provided by Saliba’s Pharmacy…
Month: March 2017
Fort Myers man arrested, charged with cyber attack on Calif. software company
Melissa Montoya reports: A 29-year-old Fort Myers man was arrested after an FBI investigation found he allegedly shut down a San Diego software company’s website. Gerard “Jerry” M. McTear III was taken into custody Friday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He allegedly took the website down on June 6, 2016 and told them he would…
Inmates’ personal info mistakenly released to ID thief
Lou Whitmire reports: The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections mistakenly released the Social Security numbers of more than 2,000 inmates at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution to a convicted identity thief from Mansfield as part of a public records request. Read more on Mansfield News Journal.
University of Idaho notifies 257 employees after phishing incident
Not all phishing attempts are spear-phishing for W-2 forms. The University of Idaho is notifying employees whose personal information was in an employee’s email account after the employee fell for a phishing attack. From their notification: On January 24, 2017, we detected that one of our accounts was being used to send phishing email. The…
Payments Giant Verifone Investigating Breach Affecting Gas Stations
Brian Krebs reports: Credit and debit card payments giant Verifone [NYSE: PAY] is investigating a breach of its internal computer networks that appears to have impacted a number of companies running its point-of-sale solutions, according to sources. Verifone says the extent of the breach was limited to its corporate network and that its payment services network was not…
RI: DHS glitch results in 1095-B tax forms being sent to wrong parties
Katie Davis reports: A new glitch in the computer system at Rhode Island’s Department of Human Services resulted in more than 1,000 people receiving tax forms with the wrong information, putting their personal information at risk, state officials said Monday. The system, known as UHIP, has been plagued by problems since its launch in September…