This is a follow-up to the University of Texas Medical Branch breach previously reported here and here. United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in Waco, 34-year-old Katina Candrick of LaGrange, Texas, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $163,185.19 restitution for unlawful possession of fraudulent identification documents and…
Category: ID Theft
Citibank employee stole customers’ credit card numbers as part of 3-woman fraud ring
A New York woman was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for her role in a scheme that defrauded customers of a Florence, Kentucky bank out of over one million dollars. U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning sentenced 38-year-old Lisa Reid for one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity…
IRS: “We’re outraged” someone stole IDs of dead babies
There needs to be a special place in hell for these criminals. Hagit Limor reports: The Internal Revenue Service is investigating a problem the I-Team brought to light after the agency rejected the tax returns of a Cincinnati couple, saying someone else already had claimed as a dependent the daughter they had just lost to…
Orange Regional Medical Center asks investigators for info on breach
Following revelations yesterday by the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office of a massive Medicare fraud scam that utilized patient data stolen, in part, from Orange Regional Medical Center in New York, I asked the center whether they had known about the breach when it occurred in 2005 and whether and when patients were notified of…
Woman gets 18 months for ID theft for misusing her kids’ identities
The Identity Theft Resource Center and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse have both been active in trying to highlight the growing risks of children having their identity information misused for fraud. In too many cases, the perpetrators are their own parents. Although I generally don’t report all these cases on this blog, here’s a case in Maryland…
CA: 3rd suspect charged in pump-skimming scam
Henry K. Lee reports: A third suspect has been charged for his role in a gas pump-skimming operation that was uncovered in Martinez and victimized customers throughout Northern California, authorities said Wednesday. Edwin Hamazaspyan, 31, is facing identity theft and conspiracy charges along with David Karapetyan, 31, and Zhirayr Zamanyan, 30, all of Los Angeles. The three…