A year after a computer hacker breached Virginia’s statewide prescription drug database, investigators still don’t know who did it. Computer functions at the state Department of Health Professions, which runs the program, were disabled for weeks as a result of the April 30, 2009, cyberattack. The hacker claimed to have stolen more than 35 million…
Category: Breach Incidents
(update) NZ asks FBI to help nail hackers
Jared Savage reports: The FBI has been asked to help police investigate an international cyber-crime syndicate that hacked into a council-owned carpark to steal credit card details from thousands of customers. The theft of credit card details from payment machines at the Downtown carpark in central Auckland was discovered in November. It had gone undetected…
Stolen Praxair Healthcare computer contained client data
Praxair Healthcare Services, Inc. (Home Care Supply in New York) has posted the following notice on their web site: Praxair Healthcare Services, Inc. (Home Care Supply in New York) has notified certain clients of the theft of a company computer whose hard drive contained certain client names and other personal or health-related information. There is…
Famous Dave’s employee data stolen (update 2)
Here we go again…. another seemingly avoidable data theft. A Minnetonka-based employee of Famous Dave’s left some baggage in the car of a companion, including a work-related laptop computer containing a report with unencrypted employee information. As Famous Dave’s reported to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office by letter on April 16, the laptop was…
Scottrade sues hacker
Barbara Leonard reports: A Russian hacker broke into online brokerage accounts and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from its customers in a “hack, pump and dump” scheme, Scottrade claims in Federal Court. Defendant Valery Maltsev responded in a statement that said, in part: “Scottrade investors didn’t even see that money were going away from…
KY: Data on 24,600 hospital patients missing
Laura Ungar reports: A flash drive containing personal information on 24,600 patients is missing from Our Lady of Peace psychiatric hospital, prompting it to warn those patients they could be at risk for fraud. Hospital officials are sending letters to all those affected, apologizing for the privacy breach and recommending steps they can take. Officials…