Add Jersey City Medical Center to entities experiencing an e-mail breach of PHI. From their statement of April 20, 2015: On February 19, 2015, as part of routine hospital operations, an employee of Jersey City Medical Center accidentally sent an e-mail meant for internal use that included an attached spreadsheet with some patient information to…
Category: U.S.
Credit Unions, Trades Sue Home Depot
Peter Strozniak reports: A consolidated class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, Ga. Wednesday listed 37 credit unions, 16 state leagues, CUNA and 11 banks that claimed the 2014 Home Depot data breach caused billions of dollars in fraud losses and more than $150 million in card reissuance costs. Read more on Credit Union…
FL: Personal documents, SSN found in dumpster behind Orlando law firms
WFTV reports: Several local law firms could be in hot water for dumping sensitive information containing client information into a dumpster. Law firms are supposed to shred or burn the information, officials said, but piles of sensitive documents, including bank account information, were in plain sight. Unfortunately, they don’t report the names of the law…
Sally Beauty Provides Update On Recent Security Investigation
DENTON, Texas — May 28, 2015 Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) updated its customers today on its ongoing investigation of the illegal intrusion into its payment card systems and efforts to provide support to customers who may have been affected by the incident. As previously announced, the Company began an investigation into a possible…
MS Sheriff’s Office Employee Used Stolen IDs to File Fraudulent Tax Returns
United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal grand jury indicted a Mississippi woman for being part of a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities and causing the refunds to be mailed to post office boxes in Louisiana. Shannon A. Brumfield, 48, of Byram, Miss., was indicted on…
TX: Blue Goose Cantina Linked to Credit Card Theft
Katy Blakey reports that Blue Goose Cantina in McKinney has confirmed a payment card system breach that has impacted customers. In a statement to NBC5, the majority owner of Blue Goose Cantina, Jill Peterson, wrote: Last Wednesday evening we received a complaint from one of our guests that unauthorized charges had been made on his son’s…