At least in Pennsylvania, a court says the answer is no. Here are the details. The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center was hacked and employee’s personal information was taken and used to file phony tax refunds. Information taken included names, socials, birth dates, addresses and salaries. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled that employees […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Memorial Healthcare Systems in Florida was fined $5.5 million for allowing the information of about 115,000 patients to be accessed “impermissibly”. Memorial, which operates 6 hospitals, an urgent care center, a nursing home and other healthcare facilities in South Florida, reported the breach in 2012 – 5 years ago – after it discovered the problem. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anonymous, the hacking collective, is very unpredictable. Apparently they do not like child porn and the people who sell it. Over the weekend, the hosting service Freedom Hosting II – a very large TOR hosting provider – was taken out by Anonymous. TOR is often used by child porn purveyors to hide their tracks. Sites […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Licking County, Ohio, population 116,000, which bills itself as the 17th largest county in the state has been thrust back into the dark ages. A ransomware attack has taken down all of the county’s computers, including 911 dispatch and, they are saying, it will be a while before things are back to normal. On Tuesday […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI charged 104 people with identity theft related charges. The people were operating in South Florida. Included in the group was a former secretary for Jackson Health System – she played a key role in stealing patient records that were used in a tax fraud scheme. The group stole records on 24,000 patients in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am not sure what rock I have been hiding under, but somehow I missed this item. About two months ago, the security company Checkpoint revealed a new Android malware family called Gooligan. The malware can attack about 74% of Android phones world wide. The good news, if there is any, is that it only […]
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