AL.com reports: A former Best Way Rent-to-Own employee was arrested for identity theft on Friday, Decatur police said. Store managers filed a theft report on April 15 after a former customer received a bill for purchased items. Danielle Ashley Mayes, 28, became a suspect during the investigation. […]
Category: Breach Incidents
Apple, Intel, Google Employee Accounts Exposed in Data Breach of Developer Forum
Joseph Cox reports: Hackers have stolen thousands of accounts from a developers’ forum, including some belonging to Apple, Google, and Intel employees. The data comes from the website of Khronos Group, a non-profit focused on the creation of open standard APIs for the playback of media files on various platforms and devices. The group manages Open Graphics Library…
If you advertise it “100% safe and secure,” it’d better be
NY Announces $100K Settlement With E-Retailer After Data Breach Exposes Over 25K Credit Card Numbers NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a settlement with Provision Supply, LLC, d/b/a EZcontactsUSA.com, involving a data breach resulting in the potential exposure of over 25,000 credit card numbers and other cardholder data. EZcontactsUSA.com has agreed to…
Data breaches at Advocate Health Care leads to biggest ever settlement
I’ve had a lot of coverage of Advocate Health’s breaches over the past years that you can access here. Here’s is HHS’s announcement of the settlement of their charges: Advocate Health Care Network (Advocate) has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), for multiple…
Extortion demand on Athens Orthopedic Clinic escalates as patient data is dumped
On June 26, DataBreaches.net reported that several databases with patient information had allegedly been hacked and put up for sale on the dark net by hackers calling themselves TheDarkOverlord (TDO). This site subsequently identified one of the entities as the Athens Orthopedic Clinic in Georgia, and contacted them to alert them that it appeared that…
Ohio Urology Hacked, 520K Files, 156GB Leaked – RansomWare files Found!
Early today a hacker using the handle pravyy sector announced a leak of data from Central Ohio Urology and made claims that it was 156GB in total. The dump of data appears to be a copy of a file system from software used in medical practices to help organize and share documents around the local…