On May 7, this site reported: It seems Six Continents Hotels (InterContinental Hotel Groups) was notified earlier this year by the Secret Service that some of its hotels had suffered a data security breach. One of the hotels IHG subsequently notified was Cities Service (Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Sulphur, Louisiana). IHG alerted them on February…
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MD: Meritus contacting patients after ‘privacy incident’
CJ Lovelace reports: Meritus Medical Center is contacting patients about a “privacy incident” that may have compromised personal data, including names, demographics, clinical information and Social Security numbers. Meritus mailed out letters Friday to 1,029 individuals who may have been affected after conducting an investigation into the matter, according to a news release and a…
Bank of Manhattan Warns of Potential Data Leak
Ionut Ilascu reports: A data security and protection notification has been issued by the Bank of Manhattan Mortgage Lending, following the discovery that one of its employees used sensitive customer information in a manner that contradicts the organization’s policies and instructions. Read more on Softpedia.
CA: Rogue court clerk may have altered records in more than 1,000 cases
Debra Cassens Weiss reports: An investigation of altered court files in Orange County, California, is leading to one rogue clerk, according to legal counsel for the county court system. Lawyer Jeffrey Wertheimer tells the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register that the clerk appears to have altered more than 1,000 DUI and misdemeanor traffic cases since 2010…
MO: Man acquitted of Washington University-related hacking claims
Robert Patrick reports: A former Washington University employee was acquitted Wednesday of federal computer fraud charges that claimed he’d downloaded protected financial information related to the school’s endowment. David Shen, 45, of New Jersey, was manager of asset allocation and risk management for the Washington University Investment Management Company. Read more on St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
FL man pleads guilty in SIRF scheme involving identity info from a Florida Department of Children and Families database
He was indicted in April for his role in a scheme involving Cora Eutsay, a CareerSource South Florida employee accused of misusing access to the Department of Children and Families’ ACCESS Florida System. Now Kyron Jonathan Nedd, 22, of Miami Gardens, has pleaded guilty to one count of possession of fifteen or more unauthorized access devices, in violation of Title 18,…