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Category: ID Theft

Former Healthcare Employee Indicted for Involvement in Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Scheme and Unauthorized Disclosure of Patient Information

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Dissent

Another one of those all-too-infrequent criminal cases for violations of HIPAA, tacked on to the usual charges…. A Montgomery, Alabama resident self-surrendered earlier today after she was indicted March 3 on one count of multi-object conspiracy to commit identity theft and wire fraud, two counts of possessing 15 or more unauthorized access devices, two counts…

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AU: Five people charged for defrauding Medicare of more than $500,000 after police found thousands of stolen patient records

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Dissent

Martha Azzi reports: Five people have been charged with using fake and stolen medical records to defraud more than $500,000 from Medicare. Patient records illegally taken from a string of medical clinics in Sydney’s southwest have been used to lodge thousands of fraudulent claims, police say. Read more on Daily Mail.

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WI: Hackers compromise Ozaukee Co. workers’ tax info

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Dissent

WISN reports that Ozaukee County workers became victims of tax refund fraud after  their W-2 and Form 1095 tax information was compromised in a hack of GreenShades‘ web site. The county employees use GreenShades for tax filing. Greenshades learned of the breach last month when it noticed some suspicious logins on February 14. As of last night, there were reportedly…

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IRS Suspends Insecure ‘Get IP PIN’ Feature

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Citing ongoing security concerns, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has suspended a service offered via its Web site that allowed taxpayers to retrieve so-called IP Protection PINs (IP PINs), codes that the IRS has mailed to some 2.7 million taxpayers to help prevent those individuals from becoming victims of tax refund fraud two years in…

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South Bay Victim of Medical ID Theft Says Brother Should be in Prison

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Dissent

Vicky Nguyen and David Paredes report: South Bay man Ronnie Bogle gave an emotional courtroom statement at the sentencing hearing for his brother Gary Bogle, saying Gary “tortured” him for years by stealing his identity and using it for medical treatment at hospitals around the country. Read more on NBC.

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Chicago-Area Resident Indicted in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme Involving Victims from the U.S. Air Force

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Dissent

A federal grand jury sitting in Chicago, Illinois returned an indictment on Feb. 11 against a resident of a Chicago suburb, charging him with 10 counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of access device fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax…

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