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Follow-up: More than 1200 people could receive settlements after Flowers Hospital data breach

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Dissent

WTVY reports that if a federal judge approves a proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit, more than 1200 patients of Flowers Hospital in Alabama might receive reimbursement for credit monitoring expenses, payment for up to four hours of lost wages dealing with the breach, and a refund of any interest lost due to tax refund…

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DOJ backtracks on linking OPM hack to loan fraud case

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Dissent

From the not-surprised dept.: I had suggested previously that claims that data used in identity theft came from the OPM hack were not very convincing. Now the government has walked back any claim that the data did come from the OPM hack. Mark Rockwell reports: The Justice Department said it jumped the gun with a…

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Chinese police bust 7 suspects in large data theft operation

Posted on June 30, 2018 by Dissent

Xinhua reports on a huge bust: Police in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region announced Friday that they have arrested seven suspects for stealing more than 2 billion items of personal data. The data included people’s email accounts and passwords, ID numbers, cellphone numbers and payment accounts from more than 60 countries and regions, said…

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Surgery technician accused of stealing personal information from BAMC

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Dissent

KSAT reports: A surgery technician is accused of taking personal information from a surgeon and other active-duty and retired military members at Brooke Army Medical Center. Abelardo Arellano, 32, was arrested after his wife found a notebook belonging to him with several people’s names, birthdays and Social Security numbers in it, authorities said. Read more…

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CA: Long Beach Veterans Affairs Clerk Arrested On Suspicion Of Identity Theft

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Dissent

The identities and personal information of more than 1,000 Veterans Affairs patients were discovered during a traffic stop at the VA campus in Long Beach and a VA clerk was arrested on suspicion of identity theft, authorities said today. […] A second search of the vehicle yielded private information for 1,028 VA patients, including names,…

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Data breach litigation against optometry board revived

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Dissent

Judy Greenwald reports: A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling and reinstated putative class action data breach litigation against the National Board of Examiners in Optometry Inc. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, said in Tuesday’s ruling in Rhonda L. Hutton et al. v. National Board of Examiners…

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