University of Pittsburgh Medical Center investigating scheme in which employee information misused for tax refund fraud scheme (updated)

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Dissent

Sean D. Hammill reports:

UPMC said today that it is investigating how 22 employees have had their private identity information compromised as part of a “tax fraud” scheme.

“We have become aware that approximately 22 of our employees have been victimized,” UPMC said in a statement. “We are aggressively investigating with the United States Secret Service, Internal Revenue Service and United States Postal Inspection Service to determine the root cause.”