Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Matthew Goldstein report: This summer’s huge cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase and a dozen other financial institutions is accelerating efforts by federal and state authorities to push banks and brokerage firms to close some gaping holes in their defenses. Top officials at the Treasury Department are discussing the need to bolster fortifications around a critical area of cybersecurity:…
Private Investigator And Former NYPD Officer Arrested In Bribery Scheme To Obtain Reports From Federal Law Enforcement Database
Press release issued today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and William J. Bratton, the Commissioner of the New York City…
Leader of Team Digi7al sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Oklahoma: Daniel Trenton Krueger, one of two leaders of the computer hacking group known as Team Digi7al, was sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison for hacking the U.S. Navy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and over 50 public and private computer systems, U.S. Attorney Danny C….
FL: Hollywood Man Sentenced To Over 12 Years For Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Case Involving Theft Of Over 5,000 Identities
There’s a follow-up to a case previously noted on DataBreaches.net, and it appears to be yet another case of an insider breach to fuel a tax refund fraud scheme in Florida, but we still don’t know the name of the company or covered entity from whom the identity information was stolen. Nor do we know whether…
NJ: Medical records of 40,000 patients stolen from shed behind doctor's office
Patrick Villanova reports that a storage shed containing the medical records of approximately 40,000 patients was broken into Tuesday and all the files were stolen. The files belonged to patients seen between 1982 and 2009 by Dr. Nisar A. Quraishi, an internist with an office at 1 Chopin Court in Jersey City. Quraishi, who is…
Lawsuit against USC Medical Center after photo of patient's injuries uploaded to the Internet
Matt Reynolds reports: A woman who tried to kill herself by stabbing pencils into her eyes sued USC Medical Center for privacy violations, claiming that a photo of her injuries went viral after an employee shared the image. Jane Doe and her conservator David Bliss sued Los Angeles County, USC Medical Center, and Joshua Shivers,…