A physical therapy clinic in New York is notifying more than 650 patients after a laptop with protected health information was stolen. KinetoRehab Physical Therapy, PLLC learned of the theft on September 16, and although there was security footage showing the thief, police have not apprehended the thief nor recovered the laptop. “Patients who were seen…
Arizona teen indicted, accused of computer tampering after 911 cyberattack
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted 18-year-old Meetkumar Desai for allegedly carrying out a reckless cyberattack on 911 emergency call systems in Maricopa County. Desai is facing four felony counts of Computer Tampering. On October 27, 2016, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Cybercrimes Unit arrested Desai after 4 law enforcement…
8 million GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn’s MongoDB – here’s how to see yours
Troy Hunt writes: Let me make it crystal clear in the opening paragraph: this incident is not about any sort of security vulnerability on GitHub’s behalf, rather it relates to a trove of data from their site which was inappropriately scraped and then inadvertently exposed due to a vulnerability in another service. My data. Probably…
Anti-Trump Protesters Post Personal Information Of Electoral College Members
Blake Montgomery reports: The #NotMyPresident Alliance, a national anti-Donald Trump protest group, has released the personal information of dozens of Electoral College members in states that voted Republican. A spreadsheet distributed to supporters Wednesday included the personal phone numbers, addresses, religions, races, genders, and candidate preference of the electors. The document does not have a…
Corrections director charged with using database to spy on wife’s suspected lover
WYDaily reports: A former James City County on-call police officer and the current director of Colonial Community Corrections is facing invasion of privacy charges after allegedly using a police database to look up information on a man he suspected was having an affair with his wife. Harold Diggs III, 51, director of Colonial Community Corrections…
HCMC Employee Sentenced for Fraudulently Using Patients’ Credit Cards
ABC5 reports: A Hennepin County Medical Center employee who pleaded guilty to fraudulently using patients’ credit cards was sentenced Monday. Thirty-five-year-old Elizabeth Tavarez of Fridley pleaded guilty in September to one count of identity theft. On Monday, she received a stay of imposition and will be on probation for three years. She will also have…