A torrent site has fallen victim to hackers who have obtained access to its database and grabbed a copy of it totalling over 300mb. The torrent site is scanbits.org and along with the dump comes 9000+ user accounts with full account information, emails, encrypted passwords and more. The leaked data has also shown that they website is logging…
Former BPO employee arrested for credit card fraud
Another BPO/outsourcing breach involving an insider: A former BPO employee was arrested from his Southwest Delhi residence on Sunday for allegedly using stolen credit card details to make purchases worth Rs 11 lakh from an e-commerce website — mydala.com. […] Jha, police said, is a commerce graduate from Delhi University’s School of Open Learning and…
Laptop with Apria Healthcare patient information stolen – yes, from an unattended vehicle!
Seen in today’s Arizona Daily Star: After a security breach, Apria Healthcare is offering 11,000 affected patients free credit monitoring. The California-based healthcare company says 4,178 patients in Arizona were affected, including 1,100 in Southern Arizona. The company offers home healthcare services and products, including home oxygen therapy, sleep apnea equipment, home medical equipment and…
Phlebotomist sentenced for role in ID theft/fraud scheme
The Associated Press is reporting that Fairon Williams, a phlebotomist from Norfolk, Virginia, was sentenced to two years in prison. Williams had pleaded guilty in federal court on May 1 to engaging in aggravated identity theft while working in an unnamed medical office. Two years was the maximum mandatory sentence she faced. The AP report does…
Dozens of Atlanta police socially engineered into giving ID thieves their personal info
At least 39 members or employees of Atlanta law enforcement fell prey to two women who posed as representatives of AFLAC and requested their personal information under the ruse of the city changing its insurance options. Read more about it on 11Alive, the Florida-Times Union, and Creative Loafing.
Update: St. Louis-area women sue surgeon after she puts photos of their breasts on the Web
There’s more on a lawsuit previously mentioned on this blog, where patients sued a cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Michele Koo, for uploading before/after pictures to the Internet that could be found by a Google search on the patients’ names. The problem, at least in some cases, occurred because the patients’ names were embedded in the photos’…