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After breaches, higher-ed schools adopt two-factor authentication

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Dissent

Ann Bednarz reports: Payday didn’t go as planned on January 2, 2014, for some Boston University employees. On that day, about a dozen faculty members discovered their paychecks hadn’t been deposited into their bank accounts. Thieves had changed the victims’ direct deposit information and rerouted their pay. BU’s IT security team traced the attack to a phishing…

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Eataly payment card breach spanned 3 months; NYC customers offered credit monitoring services

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Dissent

Eataly, the high-end Italian food market that announced a payment system breach provided additional details in an update: Eataly NY, LLC (“Eataly”) recently became aware of a personal information security incident possibly affecting certain individuals who made a payment card purchase at the Eataly NYC Retail Marketplace, located at 200 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010 (the “NYC…

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Healthcare Nonprofit Sues Whistleblowers for Confidentiality Breach

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Dissent

Brittany Malooly reports: A nationwide AIDS healthcare provider and several of its former employees are locked in a legal battle over who took more advantage of the patients. The former employees claim that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation used patients to defraud Medicaid and Medicare, while AHF claims its employees outed confidential patient information to the…

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AR: Medical assistant pleads guilty to aggravated identity theft

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Dissent

Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced Wednesday that Mesha White, age 34, of Little Rock, appeared before United States District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright on June 3, 2015, and pled guilty to an indictment charging her with aggravated identity theft. In April 2014, a federal grand jury returned…

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CA: Fred Finch Youth Center Notifies Clients Of Potential Breach Of Personal Health Information

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Dissent

Fred Finch Youth Center (FFYC) is in the process of notifying 6,871 current and former clients and program participants of a potential breach of Protected Health Information (PHI), after discovering a break-in had occurred at one of FFYC’s San Diego County locations on the weekend of April 4th, 2015. When discovered on Monday, April 6, police determined that burglars…

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China’s Hack of U.S. Data Tied to Health-Care Record Thefts

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Dissent

Michael A Riley and John Walcott report: The disclosure by U.S. officials that Chinese hackers stole records of as many as 4 million government workers is now being linked to the thefts of personal information from health-care companies. Forensic evidence indicates that the group of hackers responsible for the U.S. government breach announced Thursday likely…

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