Lindsey Rogers reports: A Greenville woman is accused of stealing credit card numbers from customers at a Hardee’s fast food restaurant. Investigators say she then used the information to buy thousands of dollars worth of clothes, shoes and jewelry online. Tanya Powell, 41, of Greenville, was arrested Monday and charged with fraudulent use of a…
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Radiologist bypasses billing system computer security and acquires 97,000 patients’ info from NRAD Medical Associates – Update 4
Posting this here temporarily as phiprivacy.net is experiencing some problems. Usually when I see an envelope from NRAD Medical Associates, P.C. in my mail, it concerns a radiology bill or insurance matter following services there. But today, I opened the envelope to find a breach notification. Their notification, signed by their president, vice-president, and secretary-treasuresr, begins with the now somewhat…
AT&T Mobility reports breach involving service provider employees
So apparently it’s not enough that I read and think about gadzillions of breach notification letters. I’m supposed to actually report on them, too, huh? It seems I was so underwhelmed by an AT&T Mobility breach that I never reported on it here, even though mainstream media found it really newsworthy, with some even going so…
KR: FSS toughening punishment on data theft
Chung Ah-young reports that the South Korean financial regulator is cracking down by enhancing the penalties for employees and executives: Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) Governor Choi Soo-hyun directed the reinforcement of the punitive measures for any irregularities which can disrupt the market order and breach the rights of financial consumers. To prevent a recurrence of…
Illinois Attorney General Madigan Indicts Married Couple for Scheme to Access Retirement Funds by Submitting Children’s Fake Death Certificates, Stealing Coworkers IDs
June 11 – Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced charges against former Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) employees for a scheme to steal thousands of dollars from the agency’s deferred compensation program that involved submitting fake death certificates for their living children and stealing the identities of former coworkers. Donella Anderson Watkins, 41, of Lansing, was…
Star Advertiser credit card breach could impact hundreds, if not thousands, of customers
Hawaii Reporter reports: Tori Samiere, who was arraigned in First Circuit Court on Monday, June 9, on four counts of theft, pleaded not guilty to the charges. Samiere, 54, is accused of conspiring with Sadie Jane Groy, 30, to steal the credit card numbers of several clients of Hawaii’s largest daily paper, the Honolulu Star Advertiser. Groy…