Kahla Preston reports: Users of Formspring, a social question and answer website popular among young teenagers, today learned their passwords were disabled by site administrators following a security breach. Read more on The Age. In a message on their blog yesterday, Formspring writes: Urgent: Change Your Formspring Password We learned this morning that we had…
U.S. Medical ID Theft Cost Jumps To $41 Billion
Kelly Jackson Higgins writes: If you are victimized by medical identity theft, chances are you will foot the bill for the fraudulent charges, a new survey finds. The Ponemon Institute’s Third Annual National Study on Medical Identity Theft, which was commissioned by Experian, found that 45 percent of medical ID theft victims end up paying…
Hackers steal financial data from diners at Winchester restaurant
Josh Kegley reports: Central Kentucky residents who recently ate at Puerta Grande restaurant in Winchester are urged to check their bank and credit card statements because of a major data breach. The breach resulted in the theft of credit card information from between 50 and 100 people, with reports still coming in Tuesday, Winchester police…
Palm Springs doctor admits to identity theft, forgery again
I had covered a previous case involving Lisa Michele Barden, M.D. Sadly, she’s back in the news again with yet more problems with ID theft to obtain painkillers. Erik Sandoval reports: A former doctor with a laundry list of convictions for identity theft and forgery connected to a years-long addiction to painkillers pleaded guilty Tuesday…
Update: Investigation into St. Joseph data breach continues
From the Napa Valley Register: Queen of the Valley Medical Center remains under investigation by the California Department of Public Health following last year’s patient data breach. The data breach became publicly known this past April, when a class action lawsuit was filed in Sonoma County against St. Joseph Health System, operator of Queen of…
CT: Update – Attorney General's investigation into MidState data breach over
Jesse Buchanan reports: State Attorney General George Jepson has ended an investigation into last year’s data breach at MidState Medical Center and hasn’t called for any further action. MidState informed the public in April of last year that 93,500 patients’ files were downloaded onto a hard drive at Hartford Hospital by an employee who took…