On August 15, 2016, Wheeler & Egger, CPAs, LLP discovered a data security incident involving their firm and some of their clients whose 2015 tax returns were on Extension. After thorough investigation, they have discovered that the perpetrator(s) hacked into their system, and between August 3rd and 9th 2016, fraudulently filed 45 client tax returns. Letters were mailed to…
Category: U.S.
Hackers target University of Central Florida students
Matt Grant reports that more than 100 UCF students have had their debit and credit cards compromised after using them on campus. UCF does not yet know whether this is due to an wifi encryption issue connected to the payment processing. Read more on WESH.
Former Employee of Rhode Island Pain Clinic Charged in Connection with Fraudulent Billing Scheme
BOSTON – A former employee of a pain management clinic was charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to falsify patient medical records in order to obtain payments from the Medicare program and commercial insurance companies. Moustafa Moataz Aboshady, 33, an Egyptian national residing in Lake Forest, Calif., was indicted…
SC: County auditor files legal complaint against county, treasurer over release of personal records
Erin Heffernan reports: A top Beaufort County elected official filed a legal complaint this week claiming the county and its treasurer compromised his family’s privacy by releasing personal information to a political adversary. Beaufort County Auditor Jim Beckert filed the complaint Sept. 29 in Beaufort County Common Pleas Court against both Beaufort County and County…
UPDATE: 5,000 Marin Medical Practices Concepts patient records lost during recovery from ransomware attack
In August, I noted a ransomware attack on Marin Medical Practices Concepts (MMPC), a business associate providing billing and EMR services to many physicians. The ransomware prevented the physicians from accessing patient records for more than 10 days, and Marin decided to pay an undisclosed amount of ransom. In an August 4 statement, however, they…
InfoArmor: Yahoo Data Breach Investigation
Well, it seems InfoArmor is calling b.s. on claims that Yahoo! was hacked by state actors. The overview from their report: Yahoo was compromised in 2014 by a group of professional blackhats who were hired to compromise customer databases from a variety of different targeted organizations. Some of their initial targets, which occurred in 2012…