AP reports: Federal prosecutors say a former IRS employee in Central California stole the identities of her co-workers and opened credit cards to go on shopping sprees with friends. U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced Tuesday that 30-year-old Viririana Hernandez and three others stole $1.2 million from 160 people, many of them IRS employees. Prosecutors say…
MCCCD fires IT manager who warned of security breach
The Maricopa Administration is accusing me of not doing a job that wasn’t mine to do, being responsible for systems that I wasn’t responsible for, knowing about a security document that was never shared with me, not communicating upwards when I repeatedly did so, not protecting Maricopa data when the data that was stolen was…
Cyber thieves got into 1,000 StubHub accounts; company says it issued refunds
AP reports: Cyber thieves got into more than 1,000 StubHub customers’ accounts and fraudulently bought tickets for events through the online ticket reseller, a law enforcement official and the company said. Arrests were expected in a case that sprawled across international borders, said the official, who wasn’t authorized to discuss it ahead of arrests being…
Insider leak at San Antonio VA results in breach notifications
When a reporter came into possession of some veterans’ information, the San Antonio VA found itself with a reportable breach and a leak to investigate. From the VA’s report to Congress: Incident Summary During an on-camera interview on the evening of 06/02/14 with 4 VHA employees (identities disguised), the News 4 Reporter from WOAI stated “last week…
NY: Sloane Stecker Physical Therapy notifies 2,000 patients of breach
Sloane Stecker Physical Therapy recently notified 2,000 patients of a breach: June 18, 2014 Re: HIPAA Breach Media Notification Sloane Stecker Physical Therapy, PC recently learned that certain protected health information, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, and potentially other private information, was taken without its authorization from its secure computer network. It is publishing this…
DHS Tells Firefighters, Paramedics Medical Treatment Provides an Opportunity to Identify Extremists
A joint bulletin released in March by the Department of Homeland Security, FBI and National Counterterrorism Center instructs firefighters and paramedics to use emergency medical treatment as an opportunity to identify violent extremists. The March 2014 bulletin obtained by Public Intelligence titled “Emergency Medical Treatment Presents Opportunity for Discovery of Violent Extremist Activities” is part…