The Associated Press reports on an ID theft ring in Chicago that targeted medical records to obtain information with which they could get credit cards:
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says the ring charged more than $300,000 to the credit accounts of 245 victims.
Dart says one suspect worked for a janitorial service that cleaned the offices of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation.
She’s accused of copying information from patient records after hours and passing it to others who got new cards in the victims’ names or had themselves added to existing accounts.