June 2 – Two men today admitted their roles in a computer hacking and identity theft scheme that hijacked customer email accounts, stole personally identifiable information (PII) from millions of people, and generated more than $2 million in illegal profits, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Tomasz Chmielarz, 33, of Rutherford, New Jersey, pleaded guilty…
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National Network of Abortion Funds reports hack
I suppose some would consider this hacktivism… The National Network of Abortion Funds reports that its Bowl-A-Thon site was attacked on or about April 7. Fake comments were posted, fake donations were submitted, and fake donation activity threatened to disrupt the functionality of the site. Some registered users received offensive emails. Forensic investigation determined that as part of…
Defunct undergrad law society site exposed hundreds of SSNs
Penn State University recently reported an incident to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that involves a now-defunct club. According to their report, the university was notified on April 13 that a historical document uploaded to the Undergraduate Law Society‘s web site was a spreadsheet that contained two fields – SSN and DOB – that…
Low-tech break-in results in breach notification in Phoenix
The administrative offices of Mountain Park Health Center in Phoenix was burglarized on March 22nd. Burglars rifled through the contents of locked file cabinets containing personnel information, but none of the contents were stolen. The kinds of employee information in the files included names, addresses, telephone numbers, SSN, dates of birth, and limited financial information. Through…
MI: Patient info at 2 ProMedica hospitals breached
Elena Saavedra Buckley report: Private medical records of 3,472 patients at two ProMedica hospitals in Michigan were inappropriately breached by seven employees, Julie Yaroch, the health system’s president at both hospitals, told The Blade on Friday night. The patients’ names, birth dates, medications, and clinical information from acute care services were accessed at ProMedica Bixby…
NM: UNM Hospital notifying patients of data breach
KRQE reports a breach involving patients data from University of New Mexico Hospital: UNM Hospital is notifying more than 2,800 patients of a data breach. They say that limited medical information may have been mailed to a wrong address due to a technical issue with the hospital’s billing systems. Information like the names of patients, their…