A Romanian national pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiring with another Romanian national to skim customer account information from PNC Bank ATM machines in Western Pennsylvania, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced in a press release last week. Alexandru Razvan Serb, 39 pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2010, to one…
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Merchant sues U.S. Bank over chargebacks, alleges bank covered up breach
Dan Browning reports on a lawsuit in Arizona where merchants are striking back at a bank over chargebacks when the merchant had allegedly done its part to prevent fraud and verify the card’s authenticity. A tiny mom- and daughter-owned company in Arizona is taking aim at U.S. Bank in a class-action lawsuit that alleges the…
(follow-up) Ca: Cops called in late on security breach
Jennifer O’Brien reports on the post-breach discussions going on in the Thames Valley School District after a student exposed 27,000 passwords: There are “many lessons” to be learned from the security breach that left 27,000 Thames Valley student passwords exposed on the Internet, two senior school board educators said Sunday. […] In an interview, Tucker…
Another report that card fraud was down in 2010
The other day I linked to reports indicating that card fraud was down 56% in Cape Town and 20% in the U.K. this year. Now an article I saw this week on Inside Retailing cites Visa reports that counterfeit credit card fraud is down 45% in Australia this year. Another article, this one on International…
PA: Physicians group wants to drop federal lawsuit
Tim Darragh reports: A subsidiary of Lehigh Valley Health Network that sued a physician group over an alleged breach of confidential patient information now wants to drop the complaint. Lehigh Valley Physician Group, the subsidiary, Monday filed a brief in federal court in Allentown seeking to drop its complaint against MDVIP Inc. of Boca Raton,…
WikiLeaks Breach Raises Concern About Privacy of Electronic Medical Records
The embarrassing leak of a quarter-million State Department documents by WikiLeaks has recharged the debate over electronic medical records, raising concern that the government may not be capable of safeguarding Americans’ most intimate health care secrets when their records go digital. Doctors and privacy advocates alike are pointing to the havoc wreaked by WikiLeaks founder…