Nick Ralston reports: An overseas call centre employee allegedly collected banking details of Australian Citibank customers and sold them to a Sydney crime syndicate, which then used the details to defraud the customers of more than $1 million, police say. Police allege the worker, employed by a firm in the Philippines that carries out customer relations for a number of Australian-based…
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MD: Meritus contacting patients after ‘privacy incident’
CJ Lovelace reports: Meritus Medical Center is contacting patients about a “privacy incident” that may have compromised personal data, including names, demographics, clinical information and Social Security numbers. Meritus mailed out letters Friday to 1,029 individuals who may have been affected after conducting an investigation into the matter, according to a news release and a…
Expedia warns users about ‘unauthorized access’ of name, phone, email and booking info
Bob Sullivan reports: Some Expedia.com customers are getting emails from the firm warning that a would-be criminal has obtained “unauthorized access … (to) your name, phone number, email address and travel booking.” The details are being used in an attempt to trick customers into sharing even more personal information, the firm says. […] Sarah Gavin, head…
TX: Man stole personal information from people signing up for Obamacare
Andy Cerota reports: A government contractor in Houston who was supposed to be signing people up for Obamacare stole personal information from at least 17 people around the country. Kenneth Bacon, who worked in a Houston call center, is accused of taking down the names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers that enrollees gave…
Medical Informatics Engineering hacked; patient info involved
AP reports: A Fort Wayne medical software company is notifying patients of health care providers it serves that their private information might have been exposed when its networks were hacked, it said Wednesday. Medical Informatics Engineering said the attack on its main network and its NoMoreClipboard network began May 7 and wasn’t detected until May…
NY: 18,000 North Shore University Hospital- LIJ patients notified 8 months after data theft at business associate’s offices
Candic Ruud reports: The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is warning about 18,000 patients that their personal, health and insurance information is at risk due to a potential data breach. Five laptops were stolen last September from the offices of Global Care Delivery, a Texas-based firm that contracted with North Shore-LIJ and other providers…