CBS News reports: A Huntington Station woman has been accused of ripping off physical therapy patients to pay for cosmetic surgery. Suffolk County Police say Andrea Echevarria pilfered personal information from records kept by her old employer, Deer Park PTDC — a physical therapy office located in Deer Park. Authorities allege that Echevarria used the…
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MA: SMART Physical Therapy hacked by TheDarkOverlord
SMART (“Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy”) Physical Therapy has two locations in Massachusetts: one in Malden and one in Reading. But it doesn’t matter which one patients may have been treated at, as data from all of their patients was recently hacked by TheDarkOverlord. And not surprisingly, the attackers tried to extort the clinic. Having…
S.E.C. Says It Was a Victim of Computer Hacking Last Year
Alexandra Stevenson and Carlos Tejada report that the S.E.C. has disclosed it was hacked last year: The disclosure, coming on the heels of a data breach at Equifax, the major consumer credit reporting firm, is likely to intensify concerns over potential computer vulnerabilities lurking among pillars of the American financial system. The Securities and Exchange…
Equifax tweets fake phishing site to concerned customers
Did you hear the one about the major credit reporting agency that not only had two hacks this year that have impacted the majority of the population, but then they directed consumers to a fake phishing site? Yeah, that one. So at this point, I think it’s pretty clear that the Equifax breach will go…
California Court Weighs in on the FTC’s Data Security Enforcement Authority
Kade N. Olsen and Craig A. Newman report on a court opinion in the D-Link case – a case that addresses some of the issues also raised in LabMD vs. FTC: Yesterday, a District Court in Northern California weighed in on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) authority to protect consumers from “unfair” and “deceptive”…
Did a media blackout on reporting on TheDarkOverlord allow them to mushroom in the dark?
By the end of 2016, a number of journalists and/or their employers had made an ethical decision not to report on hacks and in-progress extortion attempts by TheDarkOverlord. But did the lack of coverage enable the criminals to expand their operations without any public attention or public pressure on law enforcement to pursue them aggressively? …