From breach reports to Vermont, here are three more breaches I didn’t know about previously: Cathedral Square notified residents that their only payment processing system had been compromised, resulting in access to the residents’ names, bank account numbers, and routing numbers if they paid their rent electronically. Residents do not seem to have been offered…
Author: Dissent
Maryland reports reveal yet more breaches
Thanks to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, I just received copies of the 22 breach reports they received in January of this year. They’ll be sending me the rest of the reports received this year in the very near future. Looking through what they sent me, I see that we knew about the majority of…
CA: Man who misused Puerto Ricans’ IDs for tax fraud sentenced
A Downey man who was part of a scheme that fraudulently sought more than $5 million in tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service by filing federal tax returns in the names of residents of Puerto Rico has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison. Luis Rodriguez Ortega, 35, who used the name “Miguel…
TX: Hundreds report stolen card info
Donna Fielder reports: Hackers stole credit card and debit card information from at least 200 Sanger area residents, and fraudulent charges are now popping up all over the United States, police say. Sanger police Detective Jonathan Perkins said Tuesday that a server that provided information to processors for credit cards was compromised at a Sanger…
Walgreens still under investigation by OCR
Dom Nicastro of HealthLeaders Media reports: The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) confirmed this week its investigation into the nation’s largest drugstore chain, Walgreens, based on the same television media reports that led to million-dollar settlements with CVS and Rite Aid for potential HIPAA violations. The investigation stems from a 2006 series of articles by…
Oakwood Hospital Employee Fired for Facebook Posting
Another employee fired for allegedly violating HIPAA by a posting on Facebook. Ronnie Dahl reports: … Like so many others, James was emotional following the shooting death of Taylor Police Corporal Matthew Edwards. She worked for the hospital organization that treated the police officer and the shooting suspect, Tyress Mathews. One night, while at home,…