Bethany Barnes reports: The FBI has been asked to investigate a cyber attack on a Clark County agency’s computer system, the Review-Journal has learned. Multiple sources told the Review-Journal that the Clark County Water Reclamation District’s computer system was breached and that the hackers demanded a ransom. Read more on Las Vegas Review-Journal. A spokesperson…
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WI: Hackers compromise Ozaukee Co. workers’ tax info
WISN reports that Ozaukee County workers became victims of tax refund fraud after their W-2 and Form 1095 tax information was compromised in a hack of GreenShades‘ web site. The county employees use GreenShades for tax filing. Greenshades learned of the breach last month when it noticed some suspicious logins on February 14. As of last night, there were reportedly…
Home Depot settles breach lawsuit
Jonathan Stempl reports that Home Depot has settled a lawsuit over its 2014 breach. As part of the settlement, the firm will reportedly pay $13 million to compensate consumers and $6.5 million to fund 1-1/2 years of identity protection services for cardholders.
Premier Healthcare notifying 200,000 patients after laptop with PHI stolen from office (UPDATE3)
UPDATE: The stolen laptop was recovered on March 7. See the update here. Original story: Lauren Slavin reports: Premier Healthcare patients are being notified of a possible data breach after a laptop with personal patient information was apparently stolen from the Bloomington office. More than 200,000 Premier Healthcare patients’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers and…
Some previously unreported breaches
Maryland’s Attorney General’s list for 2015 contains over 500 breach reports, many of which were never covered by the media. Here are two involving health or medical entities or health data, followed by some from the education sector that you may not have known about: Dharani Jasthi DMD PC dba Today’s Dental Associates reported that they: received an…
Mounting phishing reports predict new tax refund fraud victims in 2016
It used to be that in February and March, we’d see a number of reports of breaches involving employees’ W-2 tax statements that were due to printing or mailing errors. This year, we’re seeing reports of W-2 data theft via phishing. Because a W-2 form provides the employee’s name, Social Security number, address, and earnings information for the…