The breach involving missing backup tapes at Women & Infants Hospital was reported to HHS as affecting 14,004 patients.
How many breaches did GoTickets.com have?
Back on June 20, 2012, GoTickets.com notified the California Attorney General’s Office of a breach that reportedly occurred between May 22 and May 30, 2012. In their sample notification letter submitted to the state, they wrote: We were recently made aware that certain payment card information used on our www.gotickets.com website may have been exposed. We…
Alere Home Monitoring notifies 100,000 patients after laptop stolen from employee's car
More than 100,000 patients who take drugs to prevent blood clots are at risk of identity theft. An employee of Alere Home Monitoring, Inc. had the patient data on a laptop that was stolen. The computer file contained the names, Social Security numbers, addresses and diagnoses of patients who take anticoagulant drugs such as warfarin…
Maryland man sentenced for credit card fraud scheme
Mohammed Keita, age 42, of Silver Spring, Maryland, was sentenced yesterday to 76 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, in a credit card fraud scheme resulting in over $135,000 in losses. Keita was also ordered to forfeit and pay restitution of $136,838.30. Keita was convicted by a federal jury on August…
Maryland man pleads guilty to misusing information stolen from clients of a residential mental health program
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland on November 8: Christopher Andre Devine, age 33; of Salisbury, Maryland, Frederica, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to use the personal identifying information of individuals to open bank accounts and fraudulently…
Labelmaster notifies customers after e-commerce site hacked
American Labelmark Company (dba Labelmaster) recently reported an intrusion involving their e-commerce site (labelmaster.com) that affected customers’ names, addresses, and credit card numbers and expiration dates. In a letter dated October 17 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Dwight Curtis reported that on September 12, TrustWave confirmed that they had suffered a breach involving…