A public notice issued by Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kansas that appeared on 6News (but not, apparently, on the hospital’s web site yet): On October 28, 2011, Lawrence Memorial Hospital learned that certain information maintained by Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc., d/b/a Blue Sky Credit, the hospital’s vendor for online patient bill-pay services, was inadvertently…
Category: Breach Incidents
IL: Debit card numbers stolen at Height’s McDonald’s
An employee at the McDonald’s restaurant at 3717 N. Prospect Road was arrested Friday for allegedly using customers’ debit-card numbers to buy goods online. Ericka Hendon, 23, of 7804 N. St. Joseph Court in Peoria Heights was arrested on 21 counts of deceptive practice, 21 counts of identity theft, four counts of felony theft and…
(update) Federal Reserve Bank hacker gets 10 year sentence
Thom Weidlich reports: A Malaysian man who pleaded guilty to conducting a credit-card scheme and who was accused of hacking the Federal Reserve’s computers got a 10-year prison sentence. Lin Mun Poo, 32, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dora L. Irizarry in Brooklyn, New York. In April, he pleaded guilty to illegally possessing…
Security Breach at Lawrence Memorial Hospital
A public notice issued by Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kansas that appeared on 6News (but not, apparently, on the hospital’s web site yet): On October 28, 2011, Lawrence Memorial Hospital learned that certain information maintained by Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc., d/b/a Blue Sky Credit, the hospital’s vendor for online patient bill-pay services, was inadvertently…
Two New York men charged in ID theft fraud, stole hotel guests’ information
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., announced the indictment of Lukasz Kruk, 27, and Barry Herndon, 47, for collaborating on a long-term scheme in which they stole and possessed information from 237 credit cards, many of which were used to order more than $840,000 in airline tickets, and other goods and services. According to…
Kidney Times hack reveals users’ e-mail addresses and phone numbers
Via Cyber War News, another hack – this one of the Kidney Times user database with 952 email addresses and phone numbers dumped. Lee J of Cyber War News comments on the breach: Well, this would have to be one of the worst sites you could possible target, regardless. Hackers need to stay away from websites adn…