Daniel Axelrod reports: Middletown Medical recently discovered the practice’s staff may have accidentally disclosed an unspecified amount of its patients’ personal health information in January, the provider announced Thursday. “On January 29, 2018, we learned that the security setting on a Middletown Medical radiology interface may have permitted users to see a patient listing and,…
Month: March 2018
20 hackers arrested in EUR 1 million bank phishing scam
A two-year long cybercrime investigation between the Romanian National Police and the Italian National Police, with the support of Europol, its Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) and Eurojust, has led to the arrest of 20 suspects in a series of coordinated raids on 28 March. 9 individuals in Romania and 11 in Italy remain in…
TX: Sensitive documents found strewn about on Houston street
Andy Cerota reports that trash blowing around on Brittmore Road near Hammerly Boulevard in Houston turned out to be thousands of documents on the side of the road, may with personal and sensitive information. Thursday morning. It’s not clear from the reporting who was responsible for all those records. Read more on Click2Houston.
Years after hackers stole consumers’ identity info from mortgage brokers, victim impact continues – FBI
The FBI has an update on a hacking case previously reported on this site: A recently closed California hacking and identity theft case sadly illustrates the misery that can be visited on unsuspecting victims when their personal information is compromised. Between 2011 and 2014, four U.S. citizens who resided in San Diego—but carried out their…
Under Armour says data breach affected about 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts
Chloe Aiello reports: Shares of Under Armour dropped 3.8 percent, before paring losses, after the active-wear company informed users of its online fitness and nutrition website their data had been compromised. Under Armour announced on Thursday that the breach affected an estimated 150 million users of its food and nutrition application, MyFitnessPal. The investigation indicates…
Minneapolis FBI agent charged with leaking classified information to reporter
Mukhtar M. Ibrahim reports: A Minneapolis FBI agent who started his career with the agency as an intern in 2000 has been charged with leaking classified information to the news website The Intercept. Terry James Albury’s attorneys, JaneAnne Murray and Joshua Dratel, said in a statement that their client, the only African-American FBI field agent…