Jessica Beym reports: A Burlington County woman and a New York man were each charged Thursday with one count of bank fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft in a scheme that netted them more than $170,000, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Authorities said Patricia Lightsey, 27, of Willingboro, worked as a…
Month: August 2012
Update: About 9,200 people affected by Clarksville-Montgomery County School System hacking
Adam Tamburin reports: On Thursday, the school system began notifying about 9,200 people that elements of their personal data were accessed during a June security breach. That total includes about 4,900 employees and 4,300 students, according to James Prendergast, an attorney with Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton, a law firm the school system enlisted…
FL: Palm Beach County Health Department employee pilfered patient information
Ed Komenda reports: With a few key strokes and clicks of a mouse, an employee with the Palm Beach County Health Department accessed everything. The employee used a computer to view all manner of patient records. Names, prescriptions, social security numbers: nothing new to someone who had walked through the department’s halls for years. But…
Computer with records stolen from Stanford
Eric Van Susteren reports: A computer containing medical records and personal information for approximately 2,500 patients was stolen from a Stanford physician’s locked office sometime between July 15 and 16, according to Stanford University Medical Center. The computer, which may also have held some patient social security numbers, was outfitted with software that would detect…
More breaches you may not have known about
The newest additions to HHS’s breach tool reveals more breaches I hadn’t known about previously: Wolf & Yun in Kentucky reported that 824 patients were affected by a laptop theft on April 24th. A public notice on the breach posted in the Courier-Journal on July 20 explains: Public Notice Information on the limited theft of…
GM notifying more than 800 workers of personal information breach
Melissa Burden reports: General Motors Co. said Friday that 883 active and retired GM workers may have had their personal information exposed — including Social Security numbers — after a GM employee copied personal information just before retiring in May. “GM has completed an investigation of this incident and is contacting the affected individuals to…