Edwin Mejia pled guilty yesterday to participating in a scheme to cash more than $400,000 in fraudulently obtained federal tax refund checks issued in other people’s names. He was arrested in March 2014 and pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer. According to the allegations in the Complaint and Information filed in Manhattan federal court, and statements…
Month: December 2014
KY: Former jail employee pleads guilty to identity theft charges
Marla Toncray reports: A former employee of the Mason County Detention Center has entered a guilty plea to charges of identity theft. In May, Belinda A. Morton, 43, was indicted on four counts false statement as to identity, for the purpose of procuring the issuance of a credit card using the name and identity of…
Highlands-Cashiers Hospital discovers patient data was unprotected for more than 2 years
Highlands-Cashiers Hospital in North Carolina is notifying more than 25,000 patients after discovering that an error by their IT vendor, TruBridge, had exposed patient information on the Internet between May 2012 and September 29, 2014. TruBridge is a wholly owned subsidiary of Computer Programs and Services, Inc. Forensic investigation revealed that although patients’ names, addresses, dates…
Update to Central Dermatology Center breach
It seems Central Dermatology Center notified HHS that 76,258 patients were affected by the malware insertion in August 2012 that went undetected until September 2014.
Confirmed: Visionworks had second data breach
To follow up on a previous post, it seems Visionworks Inc. did have a second breach recently, and like the first one, it involved hardware that went missing after an upgrade. This one affected 48,000 customers in Jacksonville, FL. In a statement posted on their site, Visionworks writes: Statement on recent Visionworks privacy issue SAN ANTONIO…
TX: Thief steals equipment, birth certificates from youth football team
Cory Smith reports: A youth football team from Dallas was celebrating its victory in a weekend tournament Sunday when a thief broke into their van in San Antonio. […] The thieves stole thousands of dollars worth of equipment and electronics. The players’ birth certificates were also stolen. “That’s what we’re most worried about, the birth certificates,”…