Three Killeen, TX, residents were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a tax refund scheme with an estimated intended loss of $1.8 million. United States District Judge Lee Yeakel sentenced 34-year-old Albert Powell, 32-year-old Paris Stephens and 34-year-old Ronnie Cole to 54 months, 36 months and 18 months in federal prison, respectively. Judge Yeakel…
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OH: Springfield Regional Medical Center patients notified of #HIPAA breach due to mailing error
Katie Wedell reports: Community Mercy Health Partners, operator of the Springfield Regional Medical Center, has alerted patients to a data breach that occurred in February. Invoices for about 2,000 patients containing names, addresses, billing codes such as diagnosis and procedural codes, service dates and locations, and account balances were inadvertently sent to incorrect people. Read more on…
Sony files Motion to Dismiss class-action; argues no ID theft = no standing
Josh Dickey reports: No one has been the victim of identity theft in the five months since the cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment exposed reams of sensitive data, so a class-action lawsuit should be dismissed, the studio argues in court documents acquired Friday by Mashable. Read more on Mashable.
Verifone statement on default password Z66831
Earlier today, DataBreaches.net asked Verifone for a comment or response to the report about an unnamed firm using the same default password for 25 years, as it was pretty easy to figure out from a Google search that an unnamed vendor was them. Gene Cyranski, Vice President of Zeno Group kindly sent this statement in response: The Verifone default…
NJ: Tax preparer sentenced for selling clients’ personal information
Isaac Avilucea reports: Two-faced is the way a county prosecutor described city tax worker Lee Roberts II, who sold Mercer County residents’ personal information to a convicted felon and “known fraudster” turned cooperating witness for $200 in 2011. “He had a public face, and he had a private face,” Assistant Prosecutor James Scott said of…
WV: School system computer network attacked by botnet; Ohio County student allegedly involved
Jeff Jenkins reports: A Wheeling area high school student was recently able to invade the public education computer network and slow things down including standardized testing that was happening in some counties at the time. West Virginia Department of Education Chief Technology Officer Sterling Beane said it happened last week when the student used an…