Wade Phillips reports: Dozens of employees in the Lauderdale County School System have had their personal information taken and school officials still aren’t sure how it happened. School officials confirmed about 70 employees of the school system had their information stolen. They say someone tried to file tax returns under those names. So… could be…
Category: Breach Incidents
Children’s National Medical Center blames former transcription vendor for privacy breach
In March, 2015, the D.C.-based Children’s National Medical Center notified 18,000 patients of a breach that occurred between July 26, 2014 and December 26, 2014 after employees fell for phishing emails. In May, 2015, they were sued over that breach. Now, CNMC has disclosed another breach, this one involving a former vendor who provided medical transcription services. Their press…
Personal information of hundreds of City of Houston employees exposed
Greg Picazo reports a City of Houston breach of current and former city employees’ information that will leave you muttering to yourself, “inexcusable:” The names, social security numbers and other financial information was stored in a locked filing cabinet sold by the city at auction in February. Bad enough already, right? How did they not…
PA: Local TD Bank employee charged in identity theft scheme
Jeff Blumenthal reports: A former TD Bank employee was indicted Monday for allegedly stealing customer information and selling it to co-conspirators, who in turn used the data to run an identity theft scheme. Michael Tuffour<, 27, of Philadelphia was charged with one count of bank fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft. Read more on Philadelphia…
Student disability info ‘lost’ by uni was unencrypted and unsecured
Tom Joyner reports: The disability information of nearly 7,000 current and former students of the University of Sydney “lost” in a major privacy breach in February was unencrypted and unsecured, an internal review of incident has found. The information was lost when a software developer employed by the University left a laptop containing a student disability…
Syrian hacker extradited to the United States from Germany
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Ellen Nakashima reports: An alleged hacker with the Syrian Electronic Army, a group that supports the Syrian government, has been extradited to the United States from Germany on charges of conspiracy linked to a hacking-related extortion scheme, U.S. officials said Monday. Peter Romar, 36,…