Planet Biometrics reports: Turkey’s Council of State has ruled that biometric registration of patients must stop as it is unconstitutional. The body made the decision in response to lawsuits raised against scanning patient’s palms by the Turkish Physicians Association and other groups. The Turkish Social Security Institution introduced biometric identification for patients in 2012 to…
Month: November 2014
Goldman fires staff over leak of confidential NY Fed information
Tanya Agrawal reports: Goldman Sachs Group Inc said it fired two employees over the leaking of confidential information from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, raising again questions about the bank’s alleged cozy relationship with its regulator. The bank said a junior employee was sacked for passing on to a colleague information from the…
TX: Woman wanted in $800K ID theft scheme
Nicole Perez reports: A woman accused of stealing the identities of more than 800 people, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fraudulent tax returns, is on the run. Thalia Diaz Camareno, who also goes by the name of Irene Carrero Echevarria, faces a 10-count indictment on charges including conspiracy to commit mail…
TD Bank Claims Rival Stole Customer Files
Charles Toutant reports: TD Bank claims in a suit filed in federal court in Newark that a competing institution illegally obtained its confidential files in hopes of poaching loan customers from the bank. Kearny Federal Savings Bank of Fairfield, N.J., hired TD Bank loan officer Patrick DiSanto, then set up an email address that he…
Personal information for hundreds of people exposed after break in at apartment office
Jennifer Bauer reports: The personal information of hundreds of renters was exposed after crooks broke into an apartment complex front office. The break-in happened at the Carrington of Champion Forest apartments in the 13000 block of Cutten Road back in August but one family told Local 2 they are still dealing with the fallout several…
Former BYU-Idaho student charged with grand theft and computer crimes
Caleb Despain reports: Jacob Mahonri Espinal, a former BYU-Idaho student, was formally charged with two counts of computer crimes, felonies and grand theft, a felony. […] According to the Rexburg Police Department report, Espinal, a former document processor and graduation specialist at BYU-Idaho’s Student Records and Registrations Office, posted an associates degree in science he…