While I was at the recent PHI Protection Network conference, I had an opportunity to speak with Ben Stone, Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI’s Pennsylvania Cyber Squad. One of the questions I put to him was why the FBI had been advising companies to pay ransomware demands. Special Agent Stone told me that that wasn’t…
OH: Private data accidentally exposed by Amherst police personnel
Steve Fogarty reports: Police personnel mistakenly posted online the Social Security numbers of about 30 people during a period when they were learning how to use a new record-management system. They appeared on accident reports that were posted online from the last few weeks of 2015 to the first few weeks of 2016, according to…
BS: Activists To Send ‘Leak’ Complaint To Data Watchdog
Neil Hartnell reports: The Save the Bays activist group yesterday informed the data protection watchdog it will submit a formal complaint over the leaking of its private e-mails, once its own investigation and legal analysis is completed. Ferron Bethell, the attorney acting for the Save the Bays plaintiffs, branded the leak as “one of the…
PA: Former employee at Kirkbride Center convicted of charges relating to patient data theft for tax refund fraud
There’s an update on an insider breach for tax refund fraud involving patient data from the Kirkbride Center in Pennsylvania. As noted in 2014, the data theft occurred in 2012 and 2013. A federal jury sitting in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania returned a guilty verdict today against an Aldan, Pennsylvania, man on charges related…
AL: Former customer service rep from Birmingham wanted for identity theft
Melynda Schauer reports on a case of an identity thief posing as a customer service representative to steal others’ identity information. A tad wild: Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies are searching for a man charged with identity theft who claimed to use his job as a customer service representative to obtain data he needs for his “actual career.”…
More than a million Menulog customers’ private data at risk of theft
Esther Han reports: The private information of more than a million customers of online takeaway giant Menulog is at risk of being stolen, with experts deeming the website as “vulnerable” and “not secure”. Nicola Holden, from Victorian chain Pizza Fellas, said when she logged in to the Menulog website, she stumbled upon the names and…