John Solomon and S. A. Miller report: The U.S. intelligence community is bracing for the possibility that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email account contains hundreds of revelations of classified information from spy agencies and is taking steps to contain any damage to national security, according to documents and interviews Thursday. The top…
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CA: Pharmacy Technician Suspended for Patient Data Theft
Pharmacy Times has more on the case of a pharmacy technician at a San Diego CVS store who was accused of stealing patient data for identity theft. It appears that CVS had no knowledge of the data theft until they were contacted by the Secret Service, who had raided her apartment: During an interview with CVS…
FBI says hackers shake down big banks, threaten to shut sites if they don’t pay up
Priya Anand reports: More than 100 companies, including targets from big banks to brokerages in the financial sector, have received distributed denial of service threats since about April, says Richard Jacobs, assistant special agency in charge of the cyber branch at the FBI’s New York office. With these types of attacks, known as DDoS, criminals…
OK: Another small restaurant’s payment processing system compromised (updated)
Some Salita’s Restaurant customers in Durant, Oklahoma reportedly became victims of credit card fraud after the restaurant’s payment processing system was breached. According to The Durant Democrat, customers who ate at Salita’s between July 1st and July 27th are most affected. There doesn’t seem to be any statement on the restaurant’s web site, but the owner…
Golden 1 Credit Union notifying customers after insider wrongdoing
So an employee engaged in naughty (illegal) conduct with respect to some of the customers’ accounts, and now you have to notify all customers whose data he may have accessed in the normal course of his duties? That’s what happened to Golden 1 Credit Union. From their notification template: We are writing to inform you of a…
East Bay Perinatal Medical Associates notifies patients after patient list discovered on employee’s laptop (updated)
What may have been an innocent, but improper, storage of PHI on an employee’s personal laptop has led to a breach notification by East Bay Perinatal Medical Associates. The only thing that might seem a tad concerning is that the breach was discovered by police who were apparently investigating an unrelated matter. The employee was not…