Everything old is new again? Warwick Ashford reports: Businesses are at serious risk of data loss and compliance violations due to risky file-sharing practices, a study by the Ponemon Institute has revealed. Business leaders are failing to respond to the escalating risk of ungoverned file sharing and regular breaches of security policies by staff, according to the study commissioned…
Security Breach Gives Access To Users PlayStation Network Data – Researcher
Alexis writes: A researcher in security just discovered what seems to be a rather critical breach in Sony’s PlayStation Network. With SQL injection, it is apparently possible to access users data. A 20 years old Austrian hacker, Aria Akhavan, discovered a breach in the PlayStation Network website. According to Golem.de, the hacker has warned Sony…
CA: Former ABEO Employee Sentenced To Prison In Identity Theft Case
Reon Jordan, a former medical billing clerk at ABEO who was charged with misusing patient information, has been sentenced to four years and four months in state prison, and also ordered to pay $18,015 in restitution. CBS Los Angeles reports that Jordan pleaded no contest to one felony count each of grand theft, second-degree commercial burglary and identity…
Oh what a tangled web of Medicare fraud…
Yesterday, I linked to an article in Dallas Morning News about a former Parkland Memorial Hospital employee who will plead guilty to misusing patient information for a Medicare fraud scheme. That breach had previously been reported on this blog in 2011. The problem with the type of Medicare fraud involving home health care services he…
Florida man convicted in sale of mental health patient data
Time to play “Now Which Breach Was This and Did We Know About It?” Wisly Toussaint, of Miami, Florida, was convicted by a federal jury of one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1029(b), two counts of access device fraud, in violation of Title…
Philadelphia settles lawsuit over disclosing gun permit appeals online
Gina Passarella reports that there has been final court approval of a settlement in a class action lawsuit that stemmed from a breach in 2012. The case was Doe v. City of Philadelphia. Read her coverage on Philly.com, and see this July 2014 press release with attached court filings.