Aaron Applegate of The Virginian-Pilot reports: An unconscious man was spotted last week in the parking lot of a BJ’s Wholesale Club. He was taken to Sentara Bayside Hospital and pronounced dead. Six hours later, a man in hospital scrubs used the dead man’s credit card at Best Buy to buy a laptop computer, police…
Category: Health Data
6 in Miami charged in hospital health fraud (update 1)
Seen at MySuncoast.com: Six people in Miami are facing federal fraud charges in an alleged scheme to steal patient information from a hospital. Miami U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said Tuesday the six people used the stolen information to submit about $8 million in false claims to Medicare. The information involving about 1,500 people was…
Illinois Eye Center records accessed
Mike Maciag of the Journal Star reports: A former Illinois Eye Center employee could have used confidential patient information for identity theft. According to a letter the eye center sent last week to affected patients, the records obtained include patient names, Social Security numbers and birthdates. It is believed females between ages 18 and 25…
Leukemia Credit bureau settles Los Gatos cancer survivor's suit
Lisa Fernandez writes in the Mercury News: It’s mind-numbing what Eric Drew has been through. The former Los Gatos High School quarterback and runway model was diagnosed with leukemia seven years ago. A hospital lab technician stole his credit cards before he went into surgery. After that, credit card companies first blanketed him with cards…
Hewlett employee accused of stealing credit card information
Jeff Lipton reports in Herald Community Newspapers: A 19-year-old cashier at a Hewlett (NY) pharmacy was arrested last week and charged with several counts of identity theft after she allegedly used a device to copy credit card information from customers which was then used to make more than $8,000 in illegal purchases, investigators said. The…
Ca: Kids' data exposed
Marc Kilching of Sun Media reports: Documents containing detailed information on children who participated in a city-funded summer program were carelessly left out in the open at a public housing apartment building where a man was recently charged with possession of child pornography. George Pappas, director of the Glamorgan Resident’s Association, was running one of…