Brian Krebs writes: McDonald’s and Walgreens this week revealed that data breaches at partner marketing firms had exposed customer information. There has been a great deal of media coverage treating these and other similar cases as isolated incidents, but all signs indicate they are directly tied to a spate of “spear phishing” attacks against e-mail marketing…
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Nine St. Joseph's/Candler employees snagged in medical information breach
Eric Curl reports: Nine St. Joseph’s/Candler employees were punished after a digital image of a patient’s anatomy was photographed, texted by cell phone and posted to Facebook. In all, three employees have been fired, three have been written up, and three have been suspended without pay. Eight of those disciplinary actions occurred Wednesday. Another hospital…
UK: Patients contacted after data loss at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Kevin Core reports: Confidential patient records have been stolen from a local hospital. Now Huddersfield patients have been contacted by the hospital trust after the theft of a laptop sparked a security scare. Around 1,500 patients yesterday received a letter from Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, which told them that their details were among those…
Ca: N.S. health privacy law concerns journalists
The Canadian Press reports: Nova Scotia legislation that aims to protect personal health records but also raises fears that it’s too restrictive on the media has passed. Fred Vallance-Jones, a journalism professor at the University of King’s College in Halifax, has said the law could see journalists face fines of up to $10,000 or six…
(follow-up, TX): Man pleads guilty in Emily Morgan Hotel ID theft case
Guillermo Contreras reports: One of the main figures in San Antonio’s largest identity theft case pleaded guilty Thursday. Samuel Micha Dyer entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to commit ID theft fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. Dyer, 28, admitted being part of a ring that stole and used 17,000 credit card receipts and registration documents from…
FL: Store clerk accused of double-swiping credit card numbers
A convenience store employee will be arraigned Friday on several federal charges after allegedly stealing credit card numbers in a counterfeit operation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Ihap Abdallah “Tommy” Yamin, 31, of Okeechobee was indicted on federal conspiracy, wire fraud, credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. He could face 30 years in…