Aha. I see Brian Krebs got some answers before I did concerning a breach involving ADP. On April 30, I had reported that Allegheny College suspected that employee reports of W-2 data comprise were linked to a breach involving ADP’s iPay. In an email to this site earlier today, Rick Holmgren, the college’s vice-president of Information Services and Assessment said…
Stolen billing vendor’s laptop held patient info from 8 medical facilities
EqualizeRCM Services is a vendor providing billing and collection services to healthcare providers. In compliance with HIPAA, it has Business Associate contracts with its clients, who provide it with the information needed to fulfill its functions. The firm has headquarters in Austin, Texas, and offices in Houston and Washington, D.C. On February 29, EqualizeRCM learned that a…
Was an Alpha Payroll Services employee cruelly fired?
Over on Salted Hash, Steve Ragan commented on the Alpha Payroll Services phishing incident, first reported on Daily Dot. The premise of his article appears to be that the employee who was fired was a victim, too. Steve writes, in part: The employee, victimized by the same person who later victimized Alpha Payroll clients, was fired because…
(CORRECTED) QNB hackers to leak more data of another big bank soon – Kaspersky
It sounds like big trouble is brewing for a bank that has yet to be named. Naushad K. Cherrayil reports: The hackers who attacked Qatar National Bank last week have attacked a second bank and are set to leak more data, a security expert told Gulf News on Monday. “They have announced that they are going to…
“Gozi Virus” Hacker Gets Cooperation Reward
Patricia Hurtado reports: A Russian who admitted creating a computer virus that infected more than 1 million computers worldwide was spared from additional prison time on top of the the three years he’s already spent locked up after U.S. prosecutors lauded his cooperation with their probe. Nikita Kuzmin, who was arrested in 2010 and pleaded…
“Large number of” Brunswick Corporation employees being notified of W-2 data breach
Another day, another phishing for W-2 incident. WFRV reports that Mercury Marine issued a press release today stating that its parent company, Brunswick Corporation, had been a victim of an email phishing scam. Brunswick, who had more than 13,000 employees globally in 2015, issued the following statement today: Brunswick Corporation today reported it has been the victim of an email phishing incident…