A reader sent me a link to a breach notice that a relative had received from Apex Laboratory on Long Island. I’m reproducing the contents below: Apex Laboratory, Inc. 110 Central Ave – Farmingdale, NY 11735 RE: Important Security and Protection Notification. Please Read This Entire Letter. Dear Valued Clients of Apex Laboratory, Inc., We are…
Category: U.S.
RiteAid mobile app left customer prescription history vulnerable – customer
Cross-posted PHIprivacy.net: When Michael Ramirez recently used RiteAid’s mobile app to check on a prescription, he never expected to be able to access other customers’ names, addresses, and prescription records. But he was able to, and now Ramirez, a computer scientist working for the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in Charleston, is going…
AZ: Latricia Williams, Shelton Tanner sentenced in identity theft and tax credit fraud scheme
Ashley Loose of ABC15 reports: Buckeye resident Latricia Williams was sentenced to three years in prison Friday after pleading guilty in March 2012 as one of three individuals involved in an identity theft and tax credit scam. An indictment alleged that Williams, her sister Gezelle Helena Amaechi and husband Shelton DeWayne Tanner received fraudulent tax…
Personal information stolen from 2 nonprofits
Christian Cazares reports that burglaries at the American Heart Association and Olive Crest offices in Las Vegas resulted in the theft of personal information stored on laptops. Read more on KVVU. “
IEEE leaks 100,000 members’ usernames and plain-text passwords (update3)
Seen on Slashdot, Radu Dragusin writes: IEEE suffered a data breach which I discovered on September 18. For a few days I was uncertain what to do with the information and the data. Yesterday I let them know, and they fixed (at least partially) the problem. The usernames and passwords kept in plaintext were publicly…
CT: Willimantic town employees’ information was on unattended laptop stolen from employee’s office
Alison Shea reports: Willimantic police are asking for the public’s help in recovering a laptop containing town employees’ information that was stolen from Town Hall a week ago. Police said in a release late Sunday that a town employee had left the laptop unattended in his office in Windham Town Hall from 10 a.m. to…