Perhaps you saw the news headlines this week about the “Invisible Bracelet.” Lauran Neergaard of Associated Press reports: Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation’s ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient’s health history during a crisis — and which can immediately text-message loved ones that…
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Doctor alleges second person also changed patients' records in WDH privacy breach
Adam D. Krause remains all over this story: A doctor impacted by the privacy breach at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital says a second employee improperly accessed and changed patients’ records but never lost her job. “There was another woman that’s still working at the hospital,” said Dr. Cheryl Moore, whose Piscataqua Pathology Associates group was contracted to…
WSJ reports Citi’s denial (updated)
David Enrich of the WSJ reports: Citigroup Inc. denied a report in The Wall Street Journal that federal authorities are investigating the theft of tens of millions of dollars from customer accounts by hackers, and sought to reassure clients that their funds are safe. The New York financial company sent employees in U.S. bank branches…
Former Morgan Stanley Coder Gets 2 Years in Prison for TJX Hack
Kim Zetter reports that TJX hacker and Albert Gonzalez accomplice Stephen Watt was sentenced today to two years for his role in what the feds are calling “the largest identity theft in our Nation’s history.” Read more on Threat Level.
AU: Two charged over $4m Perth McDonald’s EFTPOS scam
Glenn Cordingley reports: Two people have been arrested over an EFTPOS skimming scam in which $4 million was stolen from the accounts of McDonald’s customers in WA [Western Australia]. […] The first man, a 36-year-old British citizen who lives in United Kingdom, was arrested on Monday and appeared in the Parramatta Local Court yesterday where…
Press Release: Citi Says Its Systems Were Not Breached
For Immediate Release Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) December 22, 2009 Citi Says Its Systems Were Not Breached NEW YORK – In response to an inaccurate story today by The Wall Street Journal on Citi’s cyber security, Citi issued the following statement: Allegations reported today by The Wall Street Journal of a breach of Citi systems…