Austin L. Miller reports: A 49-year-old Leesburg woman pleaded guilty in the federal courthouse in Ocala Thursday to charges of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud. Stacey Lavette Hendricks faces up to 20 years behind bars on the wire fraud charge, followed by a mandatory two-year term for identity theft, according to federal authorities. Read…
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CO: Wheat Ridge clinic reports potential breach of 1,300 patients’ information following burglary
Eric Ruble reports: A local mental health clinic says 1,319 patients’ information was possibly accessed during a burglary in November 2019. On Thursday, the Jefferson Center for Mental Health said its Independence Corner location at 9595 W. 49th Ave. in Wheat Ridge was burglarized on Nov. 29. Read more on KDVR.
PA: Meadville Medical Center investigating employee payroll data security incident
Keith Gushard reports: Meadville Medical Center is dealing with a data security incident involving its employee payroll system. The incident was discovered last week and involves only employee information at this point, according Don Rhoten, the hospital’s vice president of consumer engagement. The security problem “may have resulted in unauthorized access to the personal information of some…
PA: Not Retroactively Redacting May Have Exposed Social Security Numbers
Jamie Martines reports: Hundreds of Social Security numbers could be contained in unredacted documents housed on the Allegheny County Civil Courts public website. The Tribune-Review located federal tax lien documents filed each year from 1997 to 2010 that display unredacted tax identification numbers. Read more on Governing. This is sooooo 1990’s…. still.
CA: Mountain View High School teachers and administrators forced offline after cyber attacker breaches district
Staff at this student-run publication report: The school collected attendance on paper this morning after an unknown digital attacker breached MVLA digital systems, locking many district teachers and administrators out of their MVLA Microsoft accounts and in some cases, other necessary accounts such as Gmail and Aeries, according to MVHS Principal David Grissom. Grissom said…
Access Health CT notifying 1,100 consumers of data breach
Access Health CT is notifying 1,100 consumers about a data breach. Their notice, reproduced below from their website, does not explain how the breach happened or what it involves. It sounds like they want consumers to take action to sign up for free services, but it would be helpful to know *why* consumers should be…