Brian Krebs writes: Hackers broke into computer systems at a Massachusetts chapter of the United Way last month and attempted to make off with more than $150,000 from one of the nation’s largest charities. Patricia Latimore, chief financial officer at the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimac Valley, said unknown attackers tried to initiate…
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Highmark notifies members of new ‘data spill’
Highmark was notifying some 3,700 members on Wednesday that documents containing their names, policy identification and social security numbers were missing, the second such data spill for the region’s dominant health insurer in four months. In January, the company mailed a premium billing statement to Boscov’s Department Store, a client in Reading, according to Highmark….
TX: (follow-up) Memorial Hermann worker sentenced for bank fraud, ID theft
As a follow-up to a case previously mentioned on this site: A former patient care assistant of a Houston area hospital has been sentenced to prison for bank fraud and stealing the identities of patients, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Nakeshia Brown, 30, of Houston, was sentenced to a total of 60 months…
Possible vendor’s breach may explain some BlackHat attendees being spammed
The following is cross-posted from PogoWasRight.org: Earlier this week, PogoWasRight.org was contacted by an individual who reported that after attending BlackHat 2009, he recently started receiving spam at a unique e-mail address he had created specifically for Breach Security. After receiving spam, he contacted them to change the e-mail address to another unique e-mail address,…
Bronx man found guilty in million-dollar ID theft and tax fraud
Felix Nkansah, 28, was found guilty of participating in an identity theft ring and defrauding the United States Treasury. His conviction followed a one-week trial in Manhattan federal court. According to the Superseding Indictment and evidence presented at trial: Beginning in 2007, Nkansah participated in an identity theft ring whose purpose was to file, via…
PA: Greensburg medical facility laptops stolen
Bob Stiles reports: Two laptop computers containing patient information were stolen from two Greensburg medical complexes over the weekend, city police said Tuesday. One theft occurred at Dr. Barry Bupp’s dental practice in Medical Commons One on South Street, the other in Dr. Elie Abdallah’s office in the Medical Arts Building on Shearer Street, police…