The missing USB key with information on 25,000 patients at Montfort Hospital was found on March 27, and turned in to the hospital by the individual who found it. Now what happens with the planned lawsuit?
ID theft bill moving through Fla. legislature
As I’ve been reporting for a while now, Florida is an absolute hotbed of ID theft for tax refund fraud schemes. Yet state-level prosecutors are hampered by a law that requires them to prove intent to use/misuse information if someone is found in possession of others’ identity information. Of course, the federal prosecutors are not…
UK: Not to be outdone in lax security, Royal Oldham Hospital also has a breach involving patient records
Patients at Royal Bolton Hospital aren’t the only U.K. patients to recently have their confidential information wind up in a street. Matt Mears of CapitalFM reports that information on 16 pediatric patients at Royal Oldham Hospital was found more than 40 miles away in Liverpool. C’mon, folks, get it together. This type of lax security…
Details in Statesboro ID Theft Ring Unfold
Meredith Ley of WSAV reports that 23 people, mostly from Georgia, are facing charges in connection with ID theft and tax refund fraud scheme. Authorities with the FBI, Statesboro Police and the IRS believe those involved took names, birthdays, and social security numbers from medical records and used them to submit phony tax returns. U.S….
Museum With No Frontiers Hacked, User Passport Credentials Leaked
A hacker using the Anonymous handle has posted a paste to pastebin that contains a leaked database from the Museum With No Frontiers (https://museumwnf.org/). The leak was announced late yesterday with a simple post that contains no real message, a link to a 5.6mb archive on anonfiles and a list of database tables and basic information from the…
More than 14,000 Florida patients notified of breach involving tax refund fraud scheme
Yet another Florida medical facility is notifying patients that their information was compromised by an insider who provided their details to others for a tax refund fraud scheme. According to multiple media sources, the University of Florida is notifying 14,339 patients of the UF&Shands Family Medicine at Main practice that they may have become victims of ID…