Jackson North Medical Center in North Miami Beach is part of the Jackson Health System. It appears they, too, have suffered an insider breach for tax refund fraud purposes. John Dorschner reports that a volunteer at the medical center used a smart phone to take pictures of patient records: The volunteer’s misdeeds unraveled in a…
Pepsi Philippines Hacked, Defaced and Data Leaked
A hacker SBKiller from hacker collective CyberSec crew has contacted us with a breach on the Philippines Pepsi website (https://www.pepsiphilippines.com/). The attack which has just recently been carried has left the website with a new index page as well as a small dump of non critical data being leaked onto pastebin. Its not the first…
How many were affected by ADPI-Intermedix breach: help track this breach
As I had done with the Epsilon breach on DataBreaches.net, I’ve decided to devote a blog post to tracking organizations affected by the Advanced Data Processing (ADPI) breach. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that there were “27 agencies in 17 states whose patients may have had personal information stolen.” As you’ll see below, that does…
I know what GoTickets.com did last summer
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry asking how many breaches GoTickets.com had really experienced. At the time, it appeared that they had had one breach in May 2012, which they reported to California (and, as I recently learned, New Hampshire and Maryland), but there was a puzzling report from American Express that…
GA: Grady Health Systems notifies 900 patients potentially affected by ADPI-Intermedix breach
I was just reading that 900 patients who were treated at Grady Health Systems’ emergency care facilities may have had their data stolen by a former hospital contract worker. I thought it was yet another breach, but the Associated Press reports that the contractor worked for Advanced Data Processing Inc. Yes… the same company that I reported…
GAO: Total Extent of Refund Fraud Using Stolen Identities is Unknown
Perfect timing, as I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have many answers. What the GAO found (from their summary): Understanding the extent and nature of identity theft-related refund fraud is important to crafting a response to it, but Internal Revenue Service (IRS) managers recognize that they do not have…