There’s a follow-up to a breach previously reported on PHIprivacy.net. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida reports that Kenol Augustin, 36, was sentenced to 16 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay joint and several restitution of $57,000, for his role in the tax refund…
Category: ID Theft
TN: Former bank employee charged with stealing customer identities
George Brown reports: A former Regions Bank employee is due in court today in connection with an identity theft ring. Investigators say Kimbriuna Dyer used her job to access information. Read more on WREG.
Miami-Dade County Resident Sentenced In Stolen Identity Unemployment Insurance Fraud Scheme
A North Miami Beach resident was sentenced yesterday to 96 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for filing fraudulent unemployment insurance claims using the personal identifying information (PII) of more than 90 individuals. According to court records, from at least as early as December 2013, through the summer of 2014, the…
GA: 9 headed to prison for $5 million income tax scheme
Alexis Stevens reports: Nine people from metro Atlanta, including a former Social Security Administration employee, were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a $5 million income tax scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. The scheme involved stolen identities from more than 1,000 people, Acting U.S. Attorney John Horn said in an emailed…
PA: Last year’s UPMC data breach affecting some employees’ tax returns
Bofta Yimam reports that a breach reported in 2014 that resulted in over 800 cases of tax refund fraud for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employees may still be impacting employees this year: If you work for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, you may have to wait for your tax refund because of the…
IL: Trial in doubt for medical ID theft case
Way back when, I had written myself a note about a case in which five Indiana residents had been indicted on charges that related to an ID fraud conspiracy involving theft of patient information. According to the press release in December 2013 from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana, the five individuals were indicted November…