Ernie Garcia reports: Hackers stole customers’ credit card numbers from the DeCicco’s supermarket in Ardsley. The cyber-attack is believed to have occurred around April 17 because two customers contacted the store about suspicious activity on their cards, said Danielle Thomas, DeCicco’s legal clerk. After the customers’ calls, staff in the store reported that they too…
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Oregon’s Health CO-OP Notifies Affected Plan Members Of Security Incident
In reading the substitute notice below, note that they do not say from where the laptop was stolen, nor how many were affected. And what kind of “commitment” to privacy is it to just password-protect a laptop with PHI – and to keep “former member and dependent” information on it? C’mon, folks. We can and…
More than 1 year after breach, data show up for sale on darknet
Brian Krebs reports that he received a tip about physicians’ data up for sale on a darknet marketplace called AlphaBay One of the databases for sale was a large text file called, “Tenet Health Hilton Medical Center” that contained the name, address, Social Security number and other sensitive information on dozens of physicians across the country. Did you ever…
A 2011 breach rears its ugly head again?
It seems that everywhere I go, I stumble over breaches that I didn’t know about. Today, something on Findlaw showed up in searches. It said: I am unfortunately a victim of identity theft as of 2014. I just found out about it in february of 2015. Luckily for me the thieves did not do too…
IN: Prosecutor: Some Warrick child support files affected by virus
Richard Gootee reports: Warrick County Prosecutor Michael Perry announced that some of the county’s child support files were affected by a computer virus last year, which was before Perry took office. Perry laid blame for an alleged subsequent coverup of the incident at the feet of his predecessor — Jo Ann Krantz, whom Perry beat…
Compass Group USA notifies consumers of NEXTEP-related payment card breach
As noted previously on this site, Point-Of-Sale (POS) vendor NEXTEP confirmed that they were investigating a potential breach after being notified by law enforcement that some of its customer locations had been compromised in a potentially wide-ranging credit card breach. Brian Krebs broke the story, here. Today, Compass Group USA submitted a copy of an April 16th notification…