The following statement was posted by Florida Medical Clinic, PA on their web site. The incident was reported to HHS on May 4 as impacting 1,000 patients. Please be advised from November 18th, 2015 to January 6th, 2016 your Florida Medical Clinic, PA patient due balance statement (sample statement attached) was accessible to industrial account…
KY: Business Owner Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud For Stealing $809,205.43 From Victims
Did no one check their bank statements to see that they were having deductions made that they hadn’t approved? Or did they? Mark Allen Hartley, the owner of Patriot Computers, a Virginia corporation, entered pleas of guilty today, in United States District Court, before Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., to multiple wire fraud charges…
Chinese Tycoons, Party Officials’ Data Leaked on Twitter
From Bloomberg News: Personal information on dozens of Chinese Communist Party officials and captains of industry from Jack Ma to Wang Jianlin may have been exposed on Twitter in one of the country’s biggest online leaks of sensitive information. Posts on Twitter from an account under the name “shenfenzheng” — which has since been frozen…
Suspended sentence for leaking sensitive Nama documents
Irish Times reports: A former official with the National Asset Management Agency who leaked potentially sensitive information has been given a two year suspended sentence. Enda Farrell (40) sent confidential information about the Nama valuation of hundreds of properties to named individuals in the investment companies QED Equity Ltd and Canaccord Genuity. Read more on Irish Times.
Woman Claims Rapist Found Her Through Car Dealership
This may be one for the “small breach, big harm” files. Robert Kovacik and Mary Harris report on a lawsuit in Los Angeles filed by a woman who alleges that her rapist got her address and information from a Mercedes car dealership where he worked and where she brought her car for servicing. According to the plaintiff, the…
Outrage as Mirotvorets site leaks personal info of ‘terrorist-collaborating journalists’
RT reports: Governments, NGOs and journalists across the globe have condemned a leak of personal data of more than 4,000 media staff, accused by pro-Kiev activists of “collaborating with terrorists” for their reporting from war-torn eastern Ukraine. The names on the list include people working for respectable outlets, such as news agencies AFP, AP and…