Bob Howard reports: The travel insurer Staysure has warned customers that some of their sensitive bank card details may have been stolen after its IT security was breached. Some 93,000 people who bought policies prior to May 2012 may be at risk, it said. Staysure said it believed hackers may have stolen the three digit…
NC DHHS: Almost 49,000 Medicaid cards with children's personal information mailed incorrectly (update 1)
Michael Biesecker of AP reports: North Carolina health officials said Friday that they had inadvertently disclosed the personal information of tens of thousands of children receiving Medicaid coverage, but were tight-lipped about precisely what caused the massive privacy breach. The state Department of Health and Human Services issued a written release saying that new Medicaid…
World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League Hacked, 175,333 Accounts Leaked by @smitt3nz
Tonight a hacker using the handle @smitt3nz has announced another leak which this time is from the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League Website (https://www.wptapl.com/). The leak has been announced from twitter and posted to derp.co.uk> #leaked: https://t.co/ByWqljNFqh – 175,333 #plaintext #passwords – https://t.co/mQbBAykFpX #hacked @Cyber_War_News #WPTAPL — rubber (@smitt3nz) January 3, 2014 The surprising part about…
KY: Notary public was selling personal information to ID thieves
WKYT reports: She was a notary public who was supposed to help consumers on refinancing transactions. Instead, Melissa Hodge was selling their social security numbers and personal information to identity thieves. “They would give $20 for individuals that had a credit score between 500 and 600. Then it would go up from there. If they…
More on the EZYield breach
Back on December 13, I posted a quick pointer to a breach report filed by EZYield that I had seen on the Vermont Attorney General’s web site. I subsequently added a link to idRADAR, where Jeanne Price had additional details. Well, I think I’ve found a kindred spirit in Jeanne, as she persisted in trying…
University of Pennsylvania Health System says approximately 1,000 patients' privacy was compromised by printing error at RevSpring
Marie McCullogh reports that a printing error by vendor RevSpring, exposed approximately 500 University of Pennsylvania Health System patients’ names, type of services and tests, and amount owed to other patients: One of Penn’s billing vendors, RevSpring of Wixom, Mich., had a malfunction in its printing operation. As a result, some patients received bills containing both…