There’s an update to a case previously noted on this blog. A member of an international cybercrime, identity theft and credit card fraud conspiracy was sentenced yesterday to 21 months in prison for using information hacked from customer accounts held at more than a dozen banks, brokerage firms, payroll processing companies and government agencies in an attempt…
Search Results for: global payments
The Evolution Store notifying customers of payment card and info breach (UPDATED)
As submitted to the California Attorney General’s website: Evolution Nature Corp., d/b/a The Evolution Store (“Evolution”), is writing to inform you of a data incident that may affect the security of your personal information. We are unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of your personal information but are nevertheless providing notice of this incident…
PA: Security breach compromises credit-card info of Partners in Nephrology & Endocrinology patients
Adam Smeltz reports: An online security breach might have compromised the credit-card information of several thousand patients at a Bloomfield-based medical group. Partners in Nephrology & Endocrinology on Liberty Avenue confirmed the breach Wednesday, saying someone hacked into a vendor’s systems that process credit-card payments for the specialist practice. Read more on TribLive. A detailed…
AvMed Data Breach Class Action Settlement Gets Final Approval – Payment To Be Made To Class Members Who Did Not Experience ID Theft
Mark S. Melodia, Steven Boranian, Frederick Lah and Melissa A. Geist comment on the AvMed breach lawsuit settlement. The AvMed breach involving a stolen laptop with unencrypted information on 1.2 million people and lawsuit have been mentioned numerous times on the companion PHIprivacy.net blog (coverage linked from here). Last week, a judge for the Southern District…
AvMed Data Breach Class Action Settlement Gets Final Approval – Payment To Be Made To Class Members Who Did Not Experience ID Theft
Mark S. Melodia, Steven Boranian, Frederick Lah and Melissa A. Geist comment on the AvMed breach lawsuit settlement. The AvMed breach and lawsuit have been mentioned numerous times on this blog (coverage linked from here). Last week, a judge for the Southern District of Florida gave final approval to a settlement between health insurance provider AvMed and…
Honor among (credit card) thieves?
A Michigan State University criminologist dug into the seamy underbelly of online credit card theft and uncovered a surprisingly sophisticated network of crooks that is unique in the cybercrime domain. The thieves, Thomas Holt found, run an online marketplace for stolen credit data similar to eBay or Amazon where reputations drive sales. Thieves sell data…