As a follow-up to a case reported previously, the Associated Press reports that Shanell Bowser has been sentenced to five years in prison and was ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution to the victims of an identity theft scheme. Bowser, who was employed by medical claims adjustment firm Crawford & Company, had access…
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Med. claims adjuster sentenced to 18 months for ID theft
Cross-posted from databreaches.net: As a follow-up to a case previously reported here, Stephanie Locke has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for bank fraud and social security misuse. One of the victims, a J.C. Penney employee, Michelle McCambridge, helped when she recognized Locke when Locke came up to her register. More details on KING5.
Files on 175 Penrose patients apparently stolen
Brian Newsome reports: Social security numbers and other personal information for 175 patients of Penrose Hospital’s imaging department were apparently stolen earlier this month. No arrests have been made and no one has been put on leave or fired, but both Colorado Springs police and Penrose-St. Francis Health Services are investigating. Centura Health, which oversees…
Second blow for Bolton as company is banned
In a follow-up to a case where a data breach has had massive consequences for the breached entity, Mark Hawthorne reports that Nicholas Bolton lost another round in court in Australia when the court affirmed a decision by the Australian Domain Name Administrator (AuDA) banning Bottle Domains from selling or administering domain names: In January…
Hacker hits UNC-Chapel Hill study data
From McClatchy Newspapers: A hacker has infiltrated a computer server housing the personal data of 236,000 women enrolled in a UNC-Chapel Hill research study. Among the information exposed: the Social Security numbers of 163,000 study participants. Though the intrusion was detected in late July, computer forensics experts say it may have happened two years ago,…
Department Of Defense Putting Data At Risk
J. Nicholas Hoover reports: The Department of Defense risks exposing personally identifiable information and other sensitive data because it isn’t consistently following proper procedures in preparing computer< equipment for disposal or reuse, the military's inspector general has found. In an evaluation of DoD internal controls and processes, the inspector general found that several military departments...