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Category: U.S.
Second Tampa General Hospital employee charged in patient identity theft for tax refund fraud scheme
There’s an update to a case first noted on this site in July, 2013. The Tampa Tribune reports that Shakania Benton, 37, a former Tampa General Hospital unit coordinator for the hospital’s main operating room, has been indicted on charges she disclosed patient information in connection with a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme. Previously,…
Web.com Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach
Melissa LaFreniere reports: Web.com faces a potential class action lawsuit over allegations that the website builder failed to provide reasonable security measures to keep the personal information of their clients safe. Lead plaintiff Morgorna Mohorne filed the Web.com class action lawsuit after a data breach in August 2015 allegedly left her credit and debit card…
Student charged with hacking N.C. high school’s computer system, changing grades
Andrew Blake reports a follow-up to a hack previously noted on this site. A teenager was arrested in North Carolina on Wednesday after a months-long investigation led authorities to believe that he broke into a high school computer system and altered several students’ grades in a Ferris Bueller-styled hack. High school senior Saivamsi Hanumanthu, 17,…
IA: Medicap Pharmacy warns of possible data breach (UPDATED)
Matthew Patane reports: Medicap Pharmacy is warning customers about a possible data breach. The company said in a notice that an external hard drive was “inadvertently” disposed of on Nov. 5, 2015. The hard drive contained personal information. Medicap believed all of the information was encrypted, but said it learned on Dec. 3 that some information did…
University of Central Florida hack compromises 63,000 Social Security numbers
UCF posted the following statement today: An intrusion into the University of Central Florida’s computer network has resulted in unauthorized access to certain personal information of some current and former students and employees. After UCF discovered the unauthorized access in January, university officials immediately reported the incident to law enforcement and launched an internal investigation…