Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced Wednesday Mitchell L. Frost, age 23, of Bellevue, Ohio, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy A. Vecchiarelli and pleaded guilty to a two-count Information filed on May 14, 2010, which charged Frost with causing damage to a protected computer system and possessing…
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Leader of ID theft ring sentenced to prison
Armon Leon Maiden, 61, of Inglewood, California, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison and four years of supervised release for Aggravated Identity Theft and Bank Fraud. Maiden led a bank fraud ring that traveled to Seattle in November 2008, to steal from individual bank accounts. At sentencing U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly said…
Flight school employee sentenced for debit card fraud
Troy Caleb Wood, 37, of Oregon City, Oregon, and formerly of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for access device fraud, the U. S. Attorney’s Office announced. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge also ordered Wood to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, and to pay…
Web photos of woman with HIV prompt lawsuit
Eric Frazier reports: An HIV-positive Union County woman let a drug company take pictures of her for an HIV patients’ magazine, but was shocked to later find the pictures and details about her situation had been published on the Internet – without her permission, she says. The woman filed suit in federal court in Charlotte…
WPF comments on possible changes to HIPAA privacy rule; requests more patient access to audit logs
Oops — I missed this announcement last week from the World Privacy Forum: The World Privacy Forum filed comments with the US Department of Health and Human Services today in response to its Request for Information about possible changes to the HIPAA health privacy rule. WPF strongly supported patients’ current right to request a history…
Missing records on stolen laptop from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Unencrypted. Employee’s car. Pardon me while I spit. Peggy O’Farrell reports (emphasis added by me): Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is beefing up its computer security after a laptop computer containing more than 61,000 patient records was stolen. The laptop was stolen from a hospital employee’s personal vehicle while it was parked outside the employee’s…