A group of 18 men and women from seven countries have been arrested in Madrid by the National Police in connection with a credit card cloning scam. […] Police say the gang had the contacts and the infrastructure to, in less than six hours, obtain the bank details of the stolen card owners and use…
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MA: State’s error unveiled Social Security numbers
Todd Wallack reports that the Massachusetts secretary of state’s office goofed when it responded to an information request from IA Week, an investment industry publication. Instead of sending the requested list of registered investment companies, it sent a list of 139,000 investment advisers registered with the state, complete with their information: In addition to their…
AU: Online ID fraud losses explode to $1.3bn a year
Asher Moses reports: One in 10 Australian internet users have lost money to online identify fraud over the past year with losses totalling $1.286 billion, according to the VeriSign Online Fraud Barometer figures released today. The findings represent a significant increase on the figures reported in June by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which surveyed…
NC: Lawyer: Records dump a mix-up
Amanda Chan reports: Boxes of patient records from a Charlotte psychologist’s practice were left at a county recycling facility last week because the psychologist’s sons mistakenly took the wrong boxes to be recycled, his attorney said Thursday. Sean Timmons, who represents Carolina Center for Development and Rehabilitation and its owner Ervin Batchelor, said that because…
Lawsuit filed over UMC patient records leak
Steve Green reports: The fallout continued Friday over the Sun’s disclosure in November that confidential patient information was being leaked from University Medical Center. A lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed in District Court in Clark County against UMC and the man indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the patient privacy scandal….
Almost Five Years in Prison for Pharmacy Owner Slash Identity Thief
Lucian Constantin reports: A pharmacy owner from Maryland was sentenced to 57 months in prison for misusing her customers’ personal information and selling mislabeled meds. The identity thief filed fake reimbursement claims for inexistent prescription refills in the name of other patients. According to authorities, Pamela Arrey, 49, owned two pharmacies in Baltimore, operating under…