A Department of Veterans Affairs worker has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for stealing personal information from disabled North Carolina veterans to generate bogus tax returns. Michael Ray Woods, 48, of Fayetteville, was convicted in February of 12 counts of preparing false tax returns, 10 counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of…
HIPAA Auditor Involved in Own Data Breach
Dom Nicastro of Health Leaders Media has an item today about how KPMG, the company hired by OCR to implement the HITECH-mandated HIPAA compliance auditing plan, had its own data breach last year. That breach was covered at the time on PHIprivacy.net, here. Dom writes, in part: Asked if OCR considered the KPMG involvement on…
NC: VA worker sentenced for stealing vets' identities
A Department of Veterans Affairs worker has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for stealing personal information from disabled North Carolina veterans to generate bogus tax returns. Michael Ray Woods, 48, of Fayetteville, was convicted in February of 12 counts of preparing false tax returns, 10 counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of…
sison, Pangasinan Goverment website hacked by @NetBashers
Sison Government has had its website hacked, data leaked and now floating around online. This attack comes from @NetBashers and has leaked government officials personal details of government workers. The Municipality of Sison is located in the northeastern portion of Pangasinan lying within the provincial boundaries of La Union and Benguet. Its boundaries are Rosario, La Union on the north,…
FBI XSS Attack by tehWongz
FBI has been hit again, this time only with a XSS attack, done by Charriewong in the name of #Antisec and #Freetopiary. from pastebin: #AntiSec #FreeTopiary @TehWongZ YoYoYo, so WASUP TIS CHARRIEWONG HERE WITH A HACK BIGGER THEN ANY OTHER IN HISTORY. This took me 6 hours and a LOT of hate for the #Feds…
A Call to all Hacktivist, help get the real story across
Hey Everyone, We wouldn’t normally do this but hey, we do random things every so often. Anyways over here in Australia, we have a TV Show called SBS Insight. This show gives a 1 hour report on certain subjects. We have been in contact with SBS and have been asked to help get some hackers…