Samantha Allen reports: UMass Memorial Medical Group said Friday it is working with law enforcement after a former employee allegedly accessed billing records that contained credit card and debit card information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and medical record numbers. The medical group, part of UMass Memorial Health Care, said it was given permission…
Month: January 2015
Florida Man Sentenced In Identity Theft Scheme Using Inmate and Lexis Customer Information
A St. Lucie County resident was sentenced to 70 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Patrick J. Ward previously pled guilty to one count of possessing fifteen or more access devices and one count of aggravated identity theft. According to court documents, during a search warrant of Ward’s residence, law enforcement recovered…
Former Detroit cop gets up to 20 years prison for filing false identity theft reports
Khalil AlHajal reports: A former police officer convicted of racketeering last year was sentenced Friday to a minimum of two years and six months, and up to 20 years in prison Friday, according to Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette. Tamboura Jackson, 41, of Clinton Township, was suspended and later resigned from the Detroit Police Department…
VT: Security breach at local dry cleaners
Rachel Karcz reports Fabricare has been hacked and customer credit card data was stolen. View the news segment on WPTZ. A copy of Fabricare’s notification to customers was uploaded today to the Vermont Attorney General’s site here (pdf). The short version: If you used a credit card at any one of our locations between April 1st 2014 and…
Ca: Jewish General investigates privacy breach
Trudie Mason reports: The Jewish General Hospital says it is taking very seriously a breach of patient confidentiality. Hospital documents blew out of the back of a truck on Highway 15 near Mirabel yesterday. One sheet of paper lodged on the windshield of a Laval woman who later retrieved it and was shocked to read…
Has Hirsche Private Asset Management Ltd. gone dark after disclosing breach?
On January 7, this site posted a press release from Hirsche Private Asset Management Ltd. announcing what appears to have been attacks that compromised their clients’ information. Since that time, they have revealed no additional details, and their web site returns 403 and 404 error messages. A bit of digging reveals that Hirsche Private Asset Management Ltd….