Dan Goodin reports: A judge has chastised a lawyer for including the social security numbers and birthdays of 179 individuals in an electronic court brief, ordering him to pay a $5,000 sanction and provide credit monitoring. US District Judge Michael J. Davis said he was meting out the penalty under his “inherent power,” meaning no…
Category: Breach Incidents
Heartland Payment Systems Reports Third Quarter Financial Results
Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. announced a GAAP net loss of $13.6 million or ($0.36) per share for the three months ended September 30, 2009. Results for the quarter are after $35.6 million (pre-tax), or $0.59 per share, of various expenses, accruals and reserves, all of which are attributable to the processing system intrusion, including charges…
Man charged with developing and distributing cable network hacking tools
Charges were unsealed in federal court in Massachusetts against an Oregon man and the company he founded, TCNISO, alleging that they developed and distributed products that allowed users to modify their cable modems and obtain internet access without paying for it. Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer and…
CT man pleads guilty to using stolen “convenience checks” to defraud banks
Justin Edwards, 27, of Coventry, Connecticut pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to four counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. According to court documents and statements made in court, between July 2007 and March 2008, Edwards and a co-defendant stole balance…
KS: State Investigating Care Facility’s Disposal Of Records
The Department on Aging is investigating allegations a Topeka care facility put documents with personal information in a public recycling dumpster. The agency says Briarcliff Care Center, 3224 SW 29th St., reported the incident to them Friday morning. A person reported finding the documents Thursday night in a recycling dumpster at SE 29th and Adams….
Palmetto General Hospital employee and accomplice sentenced for stealing patient records
Jacquettia L. Brown, 29, and Tear Renee Barbary, 25, both residents of Miami-Dade County, were both sentenced this week following their conviction on offenses relating to the theft of patient records from Palmetto General Hospital to further a fraud scheme. U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore sentenced Brown to two years and five days…