Hope Yen of AP is reporting: A federal judge on Tuesday approved the government’s plans to pay a total of $20 million to veterans exposed to possible identity theft in 2006, calling it a welcome deal to settle lawsuits after a Veterans Affairs employee lost a laptop containing their sensitive personal information. Read more on…
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CO: 150 missing hospital patient records found
All 150 patient records missing for three months from Saint Joseph Hospital and Lutheran Medical Center have been found, according to Exempla Healthcare and FedEx. The documents had been lost by FedEx while being shipped between two third-party groups doing compliance and audit checks to make sure Exempla Healthcare meets complex Medicare requirements. FedEx spokesman…
CO: ‘Anti-Gym’ Personal Records Found In Dumpster
Rick Sallinger reports: Personal information on clients of a now-shuttered Denver gym has turned up in a very public place. Two weeks ago the Internal Revenue Service shut down the “Anti-Gym” for non-payment of payroll taxes. Somehow many of the gym’s records turned up outside in the trash. … There was information about gay relationships,…
CA: 54 workers face charges of ID theft
Jerry Berrios reports: Fifty-four employees of a Valencia DVD company were charged Monday with using false documents, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. The charges followed a raid Thursday on L&M Optical Disc West in which authorities arrested 55 individuals in connection with a variety of identity-theft-related crimes. Prosecutors declined to file…
Phila. man pleads guilty in ID theft scheme
Danielle Camilli reports: A Philadelphia man pleaded guilty Monday to charges stemming from a scheme in which he admitted using personal information of customers at a Mount Laurel bank to open fraudulent credit card accounts. Anthony Wood, also known as Anthony Bickerstaff, pleaded guilty to second-degree computer criminal activity and second-degree identity theft before Superior…
TX: Laptop theft at Parkland Memorial Hospital could imperil employee information
Sherry Jacobson reports: A laptop computer that may have contained the names, birthdates and Social Security numbers of 9,300 employees of Parkland Memorial Hospital was stolen last week, hospital officials acknowledged Monday. The laptop, valued at $1,862 and stolen Feb. 3, contained no information related to Parkland patients, the officials stressed. And while it was…