AP reports: Accounts used by South Florida college students to receive financial aid were used in a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities. Miami U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said Tuesday that 21 people have been charged, most of them current or former students at Miami Dade College. The students were using…
Stolen Laptop Doesn't Warrant $116M In Damages, Alere Says
In the latest development in the lawsuit over the Alere Home Monitoring breach that affected over 100,000 patients, Alere now asks the court to dismiss all the remaining charges under the Confidential Medical Information Act. The court had previously tossed the proposed class action lawsuit, and I suspect the court will grant Alere’s motion to…
Cafe Press subsidiary hacked; photo service on Target site compromised
Cafe Press subsidiary EZ Prints is notifying customers that they recently detected an intrusion in their system that may have compromised card payment information. Only customers placing orders between September 22 and October 23 need to be concerned about this incident. The intruders reportedly exploited an unspecified vulnerability that EZ Print has identified and removed. The…
Audit: Portland, Oregon fails to comply with credit card data security standards
Fox12 in Oregon reports:- Portlanders who use their credit card to pay for parking meters and other city services may want to take a look at the city auditor’s latest report on payment card data security. The audit found Portland fails to comply with the industry’s data security standard when it comes to payments made…
Northern Ireland website leaves front door open, spills users’ data
Jennifer Baker reports: The creators of this Irish government website may be fluent in Irish, but they are distinctly unversed in data security. The Líofa (Fluent) website – a Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure project – suffered not so much a data breach as a data giveaway! Users’ personal information such as names, addresses, emails and…
Link Found in Staples, Michaels Breaches
Brian Krebs reports: The breach at office supply chain Staples impacted roughly 100 stores and was powered by some of the same criminal infrastructure seen in the intrusion disclosed earlier this year at Michaels craft stores, according to sources close to the investigation. Multiple banks interviewed by this author say they’ve received alerts from Visa and MasterCard about cards impacted in the breach at Staples,…