Elena Hines reports: A Southern Michigan Bank & Trust employee’s vehicle was burglarized and a laptop stolen on April 10. The bank says there is no indication of a data breach, but staff are doing what they can to protect customers. “Once we became aware, we immediately took several steps to protect our clients,” said…
Category: U.S.
Double whammy: Avention investigating two data breaches involving employee info
Massachusetts-based Avention, formerly known as OneSource Solutions, is investigating two recent data breaches that may, or may not, be the work of the same criminal(s). In a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, their external counsel provides a chronology of events, beginning with reports by some employees on April 19 that their tax returns had been rejected because…
GA: Former IRS Revenue Agent Pleads Guilty to Aggravated Identity Theft of Taxpayer Information
Creshika C. Wise, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Revenue Agent who impersonated a taxpayer in order to steal over $470,000, has pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated identity theft. According to U.S. Attorney John Horn, the charges and other information presented in court: Creshika Wise worked for the IRS from 2008 until the…
CA: Kern County Superintendent of Schools investigating employee data breach
Justin Burton reports: Employees of Kern Superintendent of Schools have been alerted to a data breach at the organization, 23ABC News has learned. In a note sent to staff members on Monday, Superintendent Christine Lizardi Frazier said the group’s payroll department fell victim to a data phishing scam. A KCSOS spokesman told 23ABC the incident…
Florida Medical Clinic, PA notifies 1,000 patients after Greenway Health error exposed PHI
The following statement was posted by Florida Medical Clinic, PA on their web site. The incident was reported to HHS on May 4 as impacting 1,000 patients. Please be advised from November 18th, 2015 to January 6th, 2016 your Florida Medical Clinic, PA patient due balance statement (sample statement attached) was accessible to industrial account…
Woman Claims Rapist Found Her Through Car Dealership
This may be one for the “small breach, big harm” files. Robert Kovacik and Mary Harris report on a lawsuit in Los Angeles filed by a woman who alleges that her rapist got her address and information from a Mercedes car dealership where he worked and where she brought her car for servicing. According to the plaintiff, the…