EA overcharges gamers

Electronic Arts' (EA) billing department is overcharging Warhammer Online gamers; hitting bank accounts with multiple charges, reports Tom's Hardware.

EA has acknowledged the problem, claiming the vendor responsible for charging user accounts is working on reversing the damage within 24 to 36 hours.

There could be a case against EA if banks refuse to reverse overdraft charges. EA says once the charges have been reversed, fees that were incurred should be refunded.

Symantec saw a mass phishing attack on two major brands that provide retail electronic payment services for banks across the globe, states Business 24/7.

Symantec's state of spam and phishing report for April says scam and phishing messages in March accounted for 17% of all spam, which was two percentage points lower than in February. Also, phishers initiated a massive attack that made up 4.4% of all unique phishing Web sites.

The security company says spammers have moved their focus from Haiti and Chile to delivering spam relating to the Easter Holiday.

US federal stimulus money has been given to hospitals in the hope of motivating healthcare centres to switch to electronic medical records, says MLive.com.

The stimulus funding provides about $19 billion for health IT incentives over a five-year period.

Around 44% of US office-based physicians used at least some electronic medical or health records in 2009, according to the National Centre for Health Statistics, but only about 6.3% of those doctors are using a fully functional electronic system.