Casey Vaughn reports: Deputies said a Taylors woman is accused of identity thefts while working at Greenville Hospital System, using hospital records for her financial gain. Greenville County deputies said 32-year-old Danell Adams was charged with two counts of financial identity fraud after deputies said she used the victims’ personal information to lease an apartment…
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‘Indian call centres accused of selling Britons’ personal data for as little as two pence’
Deja vu all over again: Indian call centres are selling Britons’ confidential personal data, including credit card information, medical and financial records to criminals and marketing firms for as little as two pence, an undercover investigation has discovered. Two ‘consultants’, claiming to be IT workers at several call centres boasted of possesing 45 different sets…
Does the HHS Office for Civil Rights Need a Priority Check?
Joseph Goedert asks some great questions and raises some excellent points about HHS OCR’s handling of the BCBS of Tennessee breach. Do read his commentary.
Inside Telstra’s customer information breach
Darren Pauli has a follow-up piece in SC Magazine on how Telstra responded to a breach it had in December where thousands of customers’ data were exposed online.
Police look into firm’s database of private info…. on 150 million! (updated)
We saw reports on some huge data breaches out of China last summer. Some of them, we learned, were not necessarily hacks but employees leaking data. Here’s another report of people allegedly behaving very badly. Xu Chi reports: Shanghai police are investigating a local company that reportedly illegally collected private information of more than 150…
Carder.su ID Theft Ring Busted; Feds Arrest 19 In 9 States
Ken Ritter reports: Nineteen people were arrested in Nevada and eight other states in a Las Vegas-based identity theft and trafficking ring that a federal prosecutor characterized as a sophisticated racketeering organization involving 50 people nationwide. The scheme revolved around the buying and selling of pilfered debit and credit card information on an Internet site…