Linda McGlasson reports: A proposed settlement of the consumer class action suit brought against payments processor Heartland Payments System got preliminary approval from a U.S. District Court judge in late April. The proposed settlement would create a $4 million pool to pay consumers and settle the case. […] In a “fairness hearing” on April 27,…
Category: Breach Incidents
Houston woman who sold children’s SSN sentenced to prison
Carlin Joubert, 55, has been sentenced to a total of 24 months in federal prison for her role in providing Social Security numbers as well as fraudulent drivers’ licenses and Social Security cards to individuals who used them to obtain fraudulent home loans, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. At a hearing this…
Pointer: ABC investigation on paper records disposal in Florida
ABC has had a two-part investigation on businesses and medical offices in Florida that are just dumping records with sensitive financial and health information. It seems that although there are applicable federal laws, Florida has no state law requiring proper disposal of paper records. The series names a few of the local businesses and the…
Russian hacker ‘Kirllos’ not in NZ
A Russian Facebook hacker is not based in New Zealand, say New Zealand police following a two-week investigation. Reports that the hacker known as Kirllos was living in New Zealand and attempting to sell the login details of social network website users were wrong and the hacker had no link to New Zealand, Detective Senior…
Stolen Millennium Medical Management Resources drive contained PII and PHI on 180,111
Health records belonging to patients were stolen in a break-in at a suburban medical billing company. Patients are now being notified about the security breech (sic). Police tell ABC7 the records were on a portable hard drive and stolen from the Westmont office of Millennium Medical Management Resources. It happened back in February. The company…
MO: Documents Full Of Personal Info Found In Dumspster
Teresa Woodard reports: Thousands of documents containing personal, confidential information were discovered in a North St. Louis dumpster. It is the kind of data that could lead to hundreds, if not thousands of cases of identity theft. But there’s no way to know how it got there, or who put it there. […] “I got…