A major credit card security breach is affecting thousands of people tonight. We have confirmed several credit card companies are canceling accounts and issuing new credit and check cards. […] NBC 15 News contacted Visa to try to find out where the security breach happened.. A Visa representative told us: For security, the bank does…
Category: U.S.
OR: OHSU Alerts Patients After Laptop Stolen
Oregon Health & Science University is contacting 1,000 patients after a physician’s laptop was stolen from a car parked at the doctor’s Washington County home. Patient names, treatment dates, short medical treatment summaries and medical record numbers were stored on the computer, said OHSU spokesman Jim Newman in a news release. The computer was password-protected…
IA: Potential Information Breach at Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood Community College has issued an alert to around 16-hundred people because of a potential data breach. Officials say earlier this month, someone took a storage device from a counselor’s office in Iowa City. That device contained names and social security numbers for participants in the PROMISE JOBS program. Read more on KCRG News. Update:…
IL: Missing state computers may have contained confidential information
On June 11, the Illinois Auditor General issued its audit of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. The auditors found that: The Department was not able to locate computer equipment and did not adequately plan, coordinate, and verify the transfer of EDP equipment to the Department of Central Management Services (CMS). The Department conducts…
Heartland, RBS WorldPay lawsuits consolidated
Dan Kaplan of SC Magazine reports that in separate judgments, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decided this week that lawsuits against Heartland will be heard in Texas, while action against RBS WorldPay will be moved to Georgia: “These actions share factual allegations concerning an electronic intrusion into Heartland’s processing system,” said the transfer…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Federal prosecutors in Virginia have leveled conspiracy and bank-fraud charges against the alleged leader and nine members of a national organization of high-tech pickpockets called “Cannon to the Wiz” that’s been the scourge of police around the country since at least early 2007. Personal info on over 120 victims was found…