In the criminal justice system: A Baldwin woman who used to work for CitiBank will now spend two years in prison for aggravated identity theft and bank fraud. A federal judge in Jacksonville handed down 26-year-old Isla Brumfield’s sentence Thursday. According to court documents, Brumfield had worked in the Customer Service Sales Department at CitiBank….
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WI: Nurses Fired Over Cell Phone Photos Of Patient
Nurses accused of photographing a patient and posting the pictures on the Internet have been fired. The investigation started with an anonymous call from an employee at Mercy Walworth Medical Center in Lake Geneva, with the allegation that a nurse took pictures of a patient with her cell phone and posted them on her Facebook…
And the Heartland lawsuits pile on and up
On Tuesday morning, Heartland Payment Systems President and CFO, Bob Baldwin, stated during a conference call: Today, we have had several lawsuits filed against us and we expect that additional lawsuits will be filed. We are also the subject to several governmental investigations and enquiry , including an informal enquiry by the SEC and a…
SEC, FTC investigating Heartland after data theft
Robert McMillan reports: Federal agencies, including the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), have begun investigating Heartland Payment Systems following a massive data breach at the payment processing company. Company President and CFO Robert Baldwin Jr. disclosed the investigations during Heartland’s quarterly conference call with investigators Tuesday, saying…
Identity-fraud warning after passports lost
Beck Vass reports: Police are worried that identity fraudsters are behind the disappearance of packages containing passports. The New Zealand Post parcels went missing between Auckland and the Indian High Commission in Wellington. Read more in The New Zealand Herald
Sifting through the tea leaves
In what appears to be a reaction to an article by Kim Zettner of Wired, “Clues to Massive Hacks Hidden in Plain Sight,” the folks at Sûnnet Beskerming posted, “A Data Breach In The Tea Leaves, Or Tilting At Windmills?” today. They write, in part: Increased frequency of reports of small to medium numbers of…