A handful of East Bay Wells Fargo customers had their credit cards canceled after their card numbers were stolen. The bank says the card holders were victims of what’s called “a point of sale compromise.” That means thieves acquired card numbers at a store or ATM — not by hacking into a computer system. Customers…
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NC: Prompt Med Fined for Improper Disposal of Records
Following up on a breach previously covered here and here, the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office released this statement yesterday: A Greensboro urgent care center has paid $50,000 because its patients’ financial and medical information were illegally disposed of in a dumpster, Attorney General Roy Cooper announced Friday. “When you share your personal information with…
Study: ITRC Encouraged by 2009 Victim Aftermath Study
The Identity Theft Resource Center has released its annual Aftermath study. From their press release: For the first time in 7 years, The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC)® can state that it is encouraged by the findings of the Identity Theft: The Aftermath 2009™. It is becoming clear that some areas of great distress in…
Strong notifies patients their bills may have gone to other people
Chris Swingle and Gary McLendon repport: About half of the 2,500 patient bills Strong Memorial Hospital mailed on April 19 went to the wrong patients, and this week the hospital sent letters apologizing to affected people and telling them to be alert to any possible misuse of their information. Spokeswoman Teri D’Agostino said a machine…
Stolen computers contained patients’ SSN
I really wish OCR would list the types of information involved in the breaches they report on their site. In digging into one of their newly added reports, however, I found that the incident did include SSN: Rockbridge Area Community Services State: Virginia Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 500 Date of Breach: 3/12/10 Type of…
MasterCard Reaches Settlement With Heartland Payment Systems To Provide Issuers Worldwide Up To $41.4 Million For Data Breach Claims
MasterCard Worldwide today announced it has reached a settlement with Heartland Payment Systems (Heartland) to resolve claims by MasterCard and its issuers in connection with Heartland’s previously announced data security breach. The settlement agreement calls for Heartland to fund up to $41.4 million of “alternative recovery offers” to be made to eligible MasterCard card issuers…