Joseph Ax and Nathan Layne report: A federal judge has rejected a bid from a group of banks and credit unions suing Target Corp over its 2013 data breach to block the company’s proposed $19 million settlement with MasterCard Inc . U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson in St. Paul, Minnesota, wrote in a ruling Thursday that…
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Health Industry Can’t Protect Your Records from Hackers: Report
Herb Weisbaum reports: Your medical records are a prime target for hackers and identity thieves, but the healthcare industry is not prepared to deal with a surge in data breaches, security incidents and criminal attacks, according to a new report by the Ponemon Institute released on Thursday. “Organizations in the healthcare space are not playing…
KS: Army private accused of stealing fellow soldiers’ identities while at Fort Riley
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Todd M. Newbrough, a former Army private stationed at Fort Riley, has been charged in federal court in Topeka with with four counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, four counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of computer fraud. The indictment alleges that Newbrough used personal identity information of…
FL Dept. of Health documents of 5 patients stolen
News13 reports that sensitive information on five patients was in a “secure briefcase” stolen from a Florida Department of Health employee’s vehicle. The state knew about the March 31st theft on April 1, but only notified patients this week, it seems. One of the victims, Chris Kibodeaux, didn’t learn until Thursday that his name, social…
InterContinental Hotel Groups alerted by Secret Service to breach
It seems Six Continents Hotels (InterContinental Hotel Groups) was notified earlier this year by the Secret Service that some of its hotels had suffered a data security breach. One of the hotels IHG subsequently notified was Cities Service (Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Sulphur, Louisiana). IHG alerted them on February 11, 2015. When Cities Service…
JP Morgan bank bod accused of flogging customer account info
Iain Thomson reports: The FBI has charged a former JP Morgan employee with selling customer information to thieves who wanted to empty accounts without triggering any alarms. Unsealed court records [PDF] recount that Peter Persaud, who worked at JP Morgan’s Brooklyn branch, contacted an undercover FBI informant, and allegedly offered to sell him the account details of…