Steven Morris provides another update to a breach previously covered on this blog: A police force faces a fine from the information commissioner and compensation claims from thousands of motorists after an officer stole accident victims’ details from a police computer and sold them on to personal injury solicitors. Sugra Hanif, a constable with Thames Valley police, was jailed…
PA: Security breach compromises credit-card info of Partners in Nephrology & Endocrinology patients
Adam Smeltz reports: An online security breach might have compromised the credit-card information of several thousand patients at a Bloomfield-based medical group. Partners in Nephrology & Endocrinology on Liberty Avenue confirmed the breach Wednesday, saying someone hacked into a vendor’s systems that process credit-card payments for the specialist practice. Read more on TribLive. A detailed…
CA: Transient sentenced for theft of computers from AHMC Healthcare
Brian Day reports that the transient who stole two laptops from AHMC Healthcare containing 729,000 patients’ information has been sentenced: Christopher Lee Brown, 37, received a sentence of 4 years and 8 months from Judge Jared Moses in the Alhambra branch of Los Angeles County Superior Court, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s officials said in…
Almost 10,000 being notified of January computer theft at UC San Francisco Family Medicine Center
Statement from UC San Francisco, today: By Elizabeth Fernandez UC San Francisco is alerting some individuals to a burglary involving unencrypted desktop computers that contained some personal and health information. While there is no evidence that there has been any attempted access or attempted use of the information involved in this incident, UCSF is responding with…
Russian Intel and Spy Company SearchInform Hacked, Client Apps & Access Leaked By @Rucyborg
Today Russian hacktivist @Rucyborg has announced a leak of data from Searchinform and sent a message out to its director. The leak was announced a couple of hours ago via twitter and posted to cyberguerrilla.org with a message which states that the hackers have had access to searchinform.ru since as far back as 2012 and that…
NoMoreRack.com Probes Possible Card Breach
For the second time since Aug. 2013, online retailer NoMoreRack.com has hired a computer forensics team after being notified by Discover about a potential breach of customer card data, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.