A Chicago woman sought federal tax refunds through a series of fraudulent returns she filed in the names of other people, including a number of nursing-home residents who had no knowledge that their personal information was being used, according to a federal indictment announced today. SHANTELL WINTERS, 28, prepared and electronically filed a dozen individual…
Category: ID Theft
Merit Health Northwest Mississippi notifies patients of stolen records with identity information
Merit Health Northwest Mississippi (“the Hospital”) is notifying patients about an unauthorized removal of their health information from the Hospital. Affected patients have been mailed a letter with details related to this matter and information on accessing free credit monitoring and identity theft resolution services. On July 1, 2015, the Hospital was notified by law…
Casad Company Inc. Suffers Data Breach
ASI reports: Ohio-based Casad Company Inc., which runs the website totallypromotional.com, was the victim of a data breach in June and July, with hackers accessing the names, mailing and email addresses, and credit and debit card information for an undisclosed number of customers, according to documents posted online by the Office of the Attorney General…
Banks’ Class Certification Motion Trumpets Target Data Security Failings, Ignores Impact of Card Association Settlements
Kevin M. McGinty of Mintz Levin writes: Card-issuing banks are forging ahead with their lawsuit against Target arising from the 2013 holiday shopping season data breach. Their July 1 motion for class certification has just been unsealed, allowing a glimpse at plaintiffs’ version of the events during November and December 2013 that resulted in theft of payment…
Feds bust Wells Fargo, SunTrust and PNC bank employees in tax refund scam
David Allison reports: Federal investigators have indicted several Atlanta bank employees in a tax refund fraud scheme in which they filed more than 2,000 fraudulent tax returns in an effort to pocket more than $2 million in fraudulent tax refunds. What’s more, the feds say, the fraudulent tax returns were filed using personally identifying information…
NY: Winthrop-University Hospital worker charged with stealing patients’ personal information, cops say
Ellen Yan reports that Jasmine Sanchez, 33, an accounts representative at Winthrop-University Hospital, was arrested for stealing at least 11 patients’ personal information, including Social Security numbers. Read more on Newsday (sub. req.)