KTRK in Texas reports that Megatel Builders is denying claims about what was in documents found outside a model home: League City police are investigating exactly what was in paperwork left beside a subdivision model home. Neighbors say it contained copies of driver licenses, cancelled checks, and home sale contracts. A builder’s representative said it contained…
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American College of Cardiology breach affects 1,400 institutions
Akanksha Jayanthi reports: The American College of Cardiology has notified 1,400 institutions some patient data may have been compromised after the data was inadvertently made available to a third party vendor. During a software redesign of the ACC’s national cardiovascular data registry, a table of patient data was copied into the software test environment sometime…
IL: Evanston provides a year of free protection services, monitoring to employees after mishandling tax information
Rishika Dugyala reports: Evanston will provide free, year-long identity theft insurance and credit monitoring to employees whose tax information was accidentally revealed in the mail. Marty Lyons, Evanston’s chief financial officer, told members of City Council’s Administration and Public Works Committee on Monday that in addition to the employees’ social security numbers being displayed through…
GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley Asks Hillary Whether ‘Guccifer’ Hacked Emails
Newsmax reports: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley has asked Hillary Clinton if she knew whether her emails were hacked by “Guccifer” — the noted Romanian who first revealed that the former secretary of state had used a private server. In a letter Tuesday to Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, the Iowa Republican referenced a “Meet…
Journalist gets two years in prison for hacking L.A.Times computers
Denny Walsh reports: Matthew Keys, whose rapid rise as a social media news reporter began and ended in Sacramento, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on a jury’s verdict in October that he conspired with the hacking group Anonymous to break into the Los Angeles Times’ website and alter a news story. At…
Another Greenshades client reports tax filing problems
Add Lower Platte North Natural Resource District to the list of Greenshades clients whose employees are have been alerted to attempted identity theft involving tax refund fraud. According to Wahoo Newspaper, 15 of 18 NRD employees had been told by the IRS that an attempt to file their taxes had been made from a suspicious source. Although…