Navideh Forghani reports that there is a growing number of customers reporting fraudulent use of their payment card data after eating at McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon. The fraudulent charges began weeks ago, and the problem may have occurred around Christmas week. Unlike other cases I’ve reported on this blog, there seem to be some huge withdrawals or fraudulent…
Russian hacker w0rm claims to have hacked Citrix (updated)
Tom Reeve reports: Citrix, a US software company specialising in virtualisation and cloud computing, has reportedly been compromised by a Russian hacker called w0rm. w0rm is infamous for several attacks over the past five years on a number of high profile targets including the BBC, CNET, Adobe and Bank of America. The identity of the…
IN: McDonald’s employee arrested for allegedly skimming customers’ credit card info
WLFI reports: A West Lafayette McDonald’s employee has been arrested after detectives believe she used a skimming device to steal credit card information from customers at the drive-thru window. It happened at the West Lafayette McDonald’s on Sagamore Parkway, near Salisbury Street. Read more on WLFI.
Ca: Western University students’ personal information published online
Iain Boekhoff reports: The University is investigating after a document containing personal information of 2014–15 first-year main campus students was made publicly available online. The downloadable Excel document contains the full names, Western email addresses, what residence they were in, home phone number, cell phone number and program or faculty of current second-year students. That…
MT: New West Medicare notifying 25,000 members whose unencrypted PHI were on stolen laptop (Updated)
Update: This incident was reported to HHS on January 15 as affecting 28,209 patients. Montana Public Radio reports that New West Health Services is notifying 25,000 members after a laptop with their PHI was stolen. Here’s the statement that was posted on New West Medicare’s site today, with one interruption by me for a short,…
MaineGeneral breach update: investigation revealed additional PHI compromised
There’s an update to a breach reported by MaineGeneral Health in December after the FBI alerted them in November that information had been found on an external web site. At the time of their December notification, MG had noted that the scope of the incident was still under investigation. Today, they issued a press release with…