Liam Stack reports: A Montefiore Medical Center employee and seven others were indicted on Friday on charges of stealing the personal information of as many as 12,000 hospital patients and using it to make purchases at luxury stores, the Manhattan district attorney said. Officials said Monique Walker, 32, an assistant clerk at the hospital, allegedly stole personal information, including…
Category: ID Theft
FL: Tax Fraudster Receives 27-Year Prison Sentence; Scheme Used Stolen Patient Information
Some of the breaches mentioned in this press release had been covered on PHIprivacy.net. Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Charlene Honeywell has sentenced James Lee Cobb, III (27, Tampa) to 27 years in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity…
UK: Routh online pet supply store owners jailed for fraud
BBC reports: A mother and son who scammed more than £500,000 from customers of their online pet supply store have been jailed. Mechelle Chatfield, 47, and her son Ian, 28, used their customers credit card details to take small amounts of money between 2010 and 2012. They submitted 35,000 card entries for websites they ran…
Georgia Man Pleads Guilty To Filing 62 Fraudulent Tax Returns
Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced that Bryant T. Johnson, aged 26, of Albany, Georgia entered a guilty plea to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft on June 17, 2015 before the Honorable W. Louis Sands, Senior U. S. District Court Judge,…
Armenian Skimmer Leader Pleads Guilty
Wes Mayer reports: Davit Kudugulyan, the leader of an Armenian group that stole financial information from hundreds of victims throughout multiple states, including numerous victims in Coweta County, pleaded guilty in New York County on Wednesday. Last March, Kudugulyan and three other suspects, Garegin Spartalyan, Hayk Dzhandzhapanyan and Aram Martirosian, were arrested in New York…
Missing Link Network breach affects winery clients (update3)
Missing Link Network, the e-commerce provider for a number of wineries, notified its clients on May 27th of a breach that occurred between April 1 and April 30. The breach resulted in the attacker gaining access to customers’ names, addresses, dates of birth, and payment card data. Affected clients include (links go to their notification…