Eric Mark reports: An email mistakenly sent by Luzerne County Community College to staff and faculty members on Wednesday has raised privacy concerns about personal information contained in an attachment to the message. The email, sent Wednesday afternoon to 264 full-time LCCC employees, concerned revisions to W-2 forms for faculty and staff members. However, the…
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Vantage Credit Union employee helped steal thousands from customers
Bailey E Kinney reports: A Vantage Credit Union employee has been charged with identity theft after stealing banking information from customers. Charging documents say 28-year-old Tiara Franklin transferred funds totaling $29,600 into three accounts without the knowledge or consent of the account holders. Franklin was an employee at Vantage Credit Union’s call center located on West…
Nintendo Health Plan breach impacts 6,248 (Updated)
It’s all fun and games until you have to report a breach involving your health plan to HHS. Nintendo of America, Inc. notified HHS on February 26 of an incident impacting 6,248. The incident was coded as “Hacking/IT Incident” involving their Network Server, but still covers a lot of possibilities. [CORRECTION: It was not their…
Pharm-Olam notifies employees of W-2 information breach
It’s not clear from their notification how many employees were impacted and how the security incident occurred, but Pharm-Olam International started notifying employees by mail of a security incident that compromised their names, Social Security and income information: At Pharm-Olam International (the “Company”) we value you and respect the privacy of your information, which is…
Was the company involved in FTC charges against LabMD raided by the FBI?
A business whose evidence the FTC relied upon in opening an investigation of LabMD has allegedly been raided by the FBI. It’s just the latest development in a case that has now involved the FTC, DOJ, the security of Marine One, the House Oversight Committee, and a slew of businesses who were told that their…
Follow-up: Wayne Memorial Hospital Incident
Wayne Memorial Hospital has updated its breach disclosure, reported previously on this site as involving unauthorized insider access to 360 patients’ records. On March 1, the hospital updated the situation: One month after the termination of an employee for a patient privacy breach, Wayne Memorial Hospital continues to have no information that the accessed information was…