Add Boulder Community Hospital to the Colorado hospitals whose patients had their information acquired and misused by a contract nurse. Jeffrey Wolf reports: The 9Wants to Know investigators have learned Cannon Tubb is also accused of rifling through patient records at Boulder Community Hospital. Tubb is awaiting extradition from Texas to face a 90-count felony…
Category: ID Theft
Fraud Starts After Lulzsec Group Releases E-Mail, Passwords
Robert McMillan reports: Debbie Crowell never ordered the iPhone, but thanks to a hacking group known as Lulzsec, she spent a good part of her Thursday morning trying to get US$712.00 in charges reversed after someone broke into her Amazon account and ordered it. “They even had me pay for one-day shipping,” she said via…
CO: Nurse accused of stealing identities of hospital patients
Kyle Clark reports: A nurse who worked at five or more hospitals in the Denver area faces 90 felony charges in a wide-ranging identity theft investigation, 9Wants to Know investigators have learned. Prosecutors suspect a registered nurse working at several hospitals through a nurse staffing agencies improperly accessed patient files to steal Social Security numbers…
Update: Cleveland debit card spree getting bigger as more than 1 dozen banks, credit unions affected
More on a breach reported previously on this blog, from Teresa Dixon Murray of the Plain Dealer, who has been all over this breach for the past few weeks: The local debit card fraud breach that was discovered last month is much wider than first realized, striking just about every major bank in the area…
GA: Sandy Springs man charged with ID theft
David Ibata reports: A Sandy Springs man is in Fulton County Jail, charged with more than 100 counts of identity theft, after police investigating the odor of burning marijuana discovered much more than pot in the man’s apartment, authorities said. […] Investigators spotted a notebook containing people’s names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and PIN…
OR: Portland-area debit card fraud could be related to Michaels PIN skimming
A rash of card fraud reports over the weekend in Beaverton, Oregon may be linked to the breach of some Michaels Stores. Brent Hunsberger reports: A number of Portland-area residents reported their debit cards either were compromised or canceled suddenly over the weekend, and Beaverton police said at least one case was related to a…