Alfred Charles reports: PDQ, a fast-casual dining restaurant with several locations in the Triangle, is warning customers about a cyber attack on its computer systems in which hackers were able to access or acquire personal information from the chain’s customers who paid with credit cards. In a statement posted to the company’s website, the chain…
Category: U.S.
Midwest City notifies residents of incident that affected numerous municipalities
Midwest City, Oklahoma reports that about 2,300 customers were potentially affected by a breach involving software needed to use Click2Gov. As Dark Reading recently explained: Risk Based Security’s Inga Goddijn noticed a pattern of Click2Gov, a product of Superion Software, appearing in breach notification letters. The notifications came from cities across the United States, which…
Indian-origin Singapore woman faces jail for data leak in ‘biggest scam’ to hit US navy
Gurdip Singh reports: ‘Contract specialist’ Sharon Rachael Gursharan Kaur allegedly got $95,000 to sell information used to sway defence bids. Singapore: A 57-year-old Indian-origin Singaporean woman, accused of being involved in the largest bribery case in the history of the US Navy, may face a jail term of more than three years, a media report said…
Medical records mishap sends confidential information to Westerville woman
Terri Sullivan reports: Elizabeth Spilker might know more about you than you think. For about a year now, a local hospital has been faxing other people’s personal medical records to her home. “We have been getting regular faxes over the last year or so from Grant Medical Center, with people’s personal information attached,” said Spilker….
Tesla sues employee alleged to have stolen gigabytes of data
Cyrus Farivar reports: On Wednesday, Tesla sued a former employee who worked in its Gigafactory in Nevada, accusing him of stealing trade secrets. The lawsuit appears to be what CEO Elon Musk was referring to recently when he said that production of the Model 3 had been sabotaged. […] According to the civil complaint that was filed…
PA: Washington Health System suspends about a dozen employees
Rick Shrum reports that no one has lost their job (yet), but a number of employees of Washington Health System in Pennsylvania have been suspended during an investigation of inappropriate access to patient records. The matter is believed to have been related to the untimely death of Kimberly Dollard, 57, of Amwell Township, on June 6….