The Nottingham Post reports that the East Midlands Ambulance Service, who disclosed the loss of a floppy disk with patient data from 2012 in August 2014, and then began working to improve their data protection, has gotten a bit of good news from the ICO: no further action will be taken against them by the ICO….
Month: January 2015
MI: Police investigating possible point of sale breaches
The Marquette City Police Department is investigating reports of point of sales breaches at local businesses in Marquette. And that’s all Ryan Jarvi reports. I can find no other media coverage of this investigation at this time, though.
FL: Miami-Dade County Resident Sentenced In Identity Theft Scheme Involving Over 8,600 Patients’ Identities
A Miami-Dade County resident has been sentenced to 61 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release. Noel Barrientos previously pled guilty to one count of possessing fifteen or more access devices (social security numbers of other people) and one count of aggravated identity theft. According to court documents, law enforcement executed a search warrant…
13 Bay area defendants charged in 4 separate tax fraud schemes
SAN FRANCISCO – The grand jury returned indictments charging 13 people in connection with four separate tax fraud schemes. On January 6, 2015, San Francisco residents Josiah Larkin, 38, Monica Cobbins, 47, Krishell Robinson, 25, Thomalyn Virden, 51, and Ursula Choice, 28, were charged in a 32 count indictment with conspiracy to file false…
Former IRS employee pleads guilty to tax fraud
SAN FRANCISCO – Valorie Shaw pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to conspiracy to file false claims. In pleading guilty, Shaw, 38, of Oakland, admitted that for the past three years she was employed as a tax return preparer at “Kwiktax”. Prior to working at Kwiktax, she held a variety of…
TX: Tax documents from BBS, Inc. found in dumpster
A Houston tax preparer, BBS, Inc. (also known as Bill’s Bookkeeping Service) linked to hundreds of improperly discarded documents containing personal information said that an employee was to blame for the improper disposal. Joel Eisenbaum reports on Click2Houston.