As submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office, this notice from Sterling M Enterprises (dba Lee’s Deli): We recently learned that unauthorized individuals installed malicious software on computer systems used to process credit card transactions at our Lee’s Deli locations at 75 Battery Street in San Francisco, CA and 4200 Bohannon Drive in Menlo Park,…
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Hacktivists claim data breach at Florida International University, University of Miami
Andrea Torres is getting MSM readers caught up on some of GhostShell’s activity a few months ago, it seems: A team of self-proclaimed activists used the “Team Ghost Shell” Twitter account to continue to protest against institutions that they claim are not doing enough to protect personal data. They claim to have released data that belonged…
Yeah, that explains it
“It’s just sort of the vagaries of the system (on) how it got corrupted” — a statement by the secretary for Catholic education at the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese, on the catastrophic failures affecting computer servers in July that have delayed school opening at one high school.
3 sentenced in ID theft/tax refund scheme started in Manatee County jail
The Bradenton Herald reports: A former parole worker at Manatee County jail and two other people have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to commit stolen identity refund fraud in Manatee between 2012-13. According to court documents, Marcus Lowe, 32, of Tampa worked for Manatee County Parole Services Division at…
Mass. pot dispensary accidentally shares patients’ email addresses
Adam Vaccaro reports: Buying medical marijuana in Massachusetts got a little less anonymous Thursday morning, when the state’s lone pot dispensary accidentally shared some of its patients’ email addresses with other patients. State health officials are investigating. Salem’s Alternative Therapies Group sent an email addressed “Dear Patient,” to 157 email addresses. A copy of the…
Lawrence General Hospital notifies patients after thumb drive discovered missing
Lawrence General Hospital in Massachusetts has sent notification letters to 2,071 patients after a thumb drive with patient information was lost. The notification was made August 7, almost two months after the hospital discovered that the drive was missing from a secured hospital laboratory. The drive had been last seen on June 6, and was discovered missing…