Guest commentary from Daniel F. Gottlieb, Bernadette M. Broccolo, Jennifer S. Geetter, Jerry Tichner, Jeanna Palmer Gunville, Sarah S. Nelson, Edward G. Zacharias and Stephen W. Bernstein, attorneys in the Health Industry Advisory Practice Group of global law firm McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP [Editor’s note: Due to its length, this guest commentary will be…
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Senators demand Lockerbie bomber's medical records
From a news story in the Telegraph: US senators have called on the Scottish government to disclose the Lockerbie bomber’s full medical records in an attempt to understand why he was released early. In a letter to First Minister Alex Salmond they asked for the release of all medical documentation for Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al…
Pediatric cancer patients’ identities used as part of tax fraud operation
Joe Ryan reports that 29 year-old Steven Nelson of the Bronx pleaded not guilty in a Newark court today and remains free on bail. Nelson had been indicted by a federal grand jury in July on a tax refund scheme that not only involved ID theft, but used the identities of pediatric cancer patients to…
‘Kryogeniks’ hacker sentenced for Comcast hacking
No PII involved in this one, but since many may remember the case, I thought I’d post the follow-up. James Robert Black, Jr., a.k.a. “Defiant,” was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to four months in prison, four months of electronic home monitoring, 150 hours of community service, three years of supervised release…
Four sentenced in NJ for their role in $30 million international bank fraud and ID theft ring
Four of 17 defendants, all of whom were convicted of conspiring to engage in an international telemarketing and identity theft scheme to defraud financial institutions and tens of thousands of account holders out of millions of dollars through the unauthorized debit of customer bank accounts (the “Telemarketing and Identity Theft Conspiracy”), were sentenced by United…
UK: Hackers steal from thousands of bank accounts in latest security breach
More on the breach previously mentioned in another blog entry. Victims at one bank have lost between £1,000 and £3,000 each thanks to a ‘trojan horse’ program developed by the cyber criminals. The name of the high street bank has yet to be released as the information has just been handed to the police. The…