Aptos, Inc. provides e-commerce solutions for a number of online e-tailers. In November, 2016, Aptos discovered it had a malware breach from February, 2016 – December, 2016. At law enforcement’s request, they delayed notification to their clients, so we are first finding out about it now as the clients begin to disclose the breach to their customers. So far,…
Category: Breach Incidents
NC health department exposed patient information in email
Lynn Bonner reports: The state Department of Health and Human Services sent private patient information to adult care homes by unencrypted email last year. The security lapse involved 12,731 Medicaid patients living in adult care homes. On Nov. 30, an employee sent an unencrypted email that included patient names, Medicaid numbers, and the homes where…
ME: Belfast Police Warn of Security Breach at Credit Union
John Krinjak reports: Customers of Downeast Credit Union in Belfast are being urged to check their accounts, after more than two dozen people reported hundreds of dollars were stolen from their accounts. Complaints were called in to police Saturday that their accounts were compromised & funds were missing… According to police, someone installed a skimming…
Owner Of Durable Medical Equipment Company And Three Physicians Charged With Health Care Fraud And Aggravated Identity Theft
SAN JUAN, P.R. – On February 13, 2017, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a superseding indictment charging Dr. Dante A. Rodríguez-Rivera, Javier Efraín Siverio-Echevarría, Dr. George D. Alcántara-Cardi, Dr. Martha Nieves, Javier Antonio Aguirre- Estrada, and Carlos Maldonado-López with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health…
Lone hacktivists persist, but are they making a difference?
Sometime around June, 2015, a hacktivist who calls himself @ElSurveillance on Twitter began defacing web sites of escort services. In July, 2015, I became aware of him and began reporting on his attacks, which usually include messages left on the sites about how the service and conduct is an affront to Islam. To get an idea…
Harvard Computer Society’s Face Should be VERY Crimson: Inadvertently Exposed Student Info Online – for YEARS
Hannah Natanson & Derek G. Xiao report: More than 1.4 million emails—some divulging Harvard students’ grades, financial aid information, and at least one individual’s Social Security number—sent over Harvard Computer Society email lists were open to the public until Monday. Teaching fellows, resident tutors, College administrators, and thousands of undergraduates have used the email list…