Remember when it seemed like every day we were reading about ID theft and tax refund fraud schemes involving rogue employees of tax preparation firms? Yeah, well it’s still a thing. Here’s a story about a former rogue employee at Jackson Hewitt in McKinney, Texas. If you or someone you know may have used that…
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NZ: Landlord’s ‘blacklist’ of tenant’s criminal convictions hacked and leaked online
Samesh Mohanlall reports: A woman was shocked to discover her decades-old criminal record had been published online, part of a blacklist of compromising information compiled by a property investor group and sold to landlords about prospective tenants. Jessica Cross was one of hundreds of Timaru residents to have their sensitive information posted online, including a…
Update: Hackers release CarePartners employees’ wage statements and other financial files
On February 6, this site broke the news that some data from the CarePartners hack of 2018 was being dumped publicly, presumably as a way to increase pressure on CarePartners to pay the “requested” fee for the hackers not to release any more data. As noted in the February 6 report, there were two data…
AU: Foreign actor could be to blame for cyber-security breach at federal parliament
Greg Brown reports: Labor MP Anthony Byrne has called for top bureaucrats to be hauled before the parliamentary intelligence and security committee amid concern among federal MPs a foreign actor has breached the IT systems of politicians. Mr Byrne, the deputy chair of the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security, has demanded an explanation…
EyeSouth Partners notifies 24,000 patients after employee email account hacked
From the public notice issued by Georgia Eye Associates: EyeSouth Statement Regarding Recent Security Incident EyeSouth Partners (“EyeSouth”) recently suffered a security incident that potentially affected the protected health information (“PHI”) of Georgia Eye Associates patients. EyeSouth has provided the following information to Georgia Eye Associates out of an abundance of caution: Between September 11,…
Trakt tardily notifies users of data breach that took place over four years ago
Mark Wycislik-Wilson reports: Users of Trakt — a service for “scrobbling”, or tracking the movies and TV shows you watch in the likes of Plex and Kodi — have received emails from the company notifying them of a data breach that took place way back in 2014. Trakt says that although the security breach took…