Ari Hait reports that the Florida Department of Agriculture checked more than 6,000 gas stations across the state and found 81 skimmers attached to the pumps. Here’s a list of where they found them.
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NC: Patient records removed from abandoned Statesville hospital
Tina Terry reports that a Channel 9 News investigation resulted in crews removing dozens of boxes of patient records from an abandoned Statesville hospital, the old Davis Hospital. Now wait for it: the records were abandoned more than 30 years ago. But according to Davis Hospital, back then, “the hospital was operated by an unrelated organization.” Read…
Seton Family Health notifying 39,000 patients after employee falls for phish; Second Ascension Health member to report breach this week (Update2)
Is Ascension Health being targeted by attackers successfully acquiring employee e-mail account logins via phishing? (Update 2: It seems they are. See this post after reading the one below.) Zach Lozano reports that Seton Family of Hospitals will provide free identity monitoring and protection services for patients who had their personal information leaked in a phishing…
CA: Mail Sent To DMV Offices In Riverside Stolen
CBS reports: About 30 pieces of incoming mail were stolen from the mailboxes outside the DMV Riverside Call Center and DMV East Riverside Field Offices, DMV officials said Friday in an alert to customers. The thefts happened during the weekends of March 21 and March 28 and may have involved personal information from customers, DMV…
Congress to banks: Admit you’ve been hacked!
Jose Pagliery reports: Banks have lost so much consumer information to hackers this year that two members of Congress are asking them to come clean with the extent of the damage. Tuesday morning, 16 financial institutions will receive letters from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings asking them to admit that they have…
CA: Pittsburg residents charged with stolen identity refund fraud
OAKLAND –A federal grand jury indicted Michael Johnson and Nicole Berry with conspiracy to file false claims, filing false claims, theft of public money, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and effecting fraudulent transactions with access devices. According to the indictment, between February 2012 and May 2012, Johnson and Berry, both from Pittsburg, California, conspired to…