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Category: ID Theft

ID: Fruitland dental hygienist accused of insurance fraud

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Dissent

Here’s another case where health care services were provided by someone using a stolen identity, but in this case the stolen identity was used to fraudulently authorize treatments and to defraud insurance carriers. John Sowell reports: Federal prosecutors have accused Cherie R. Dillon of health care fraud and aggravated identity theft tied to her Payette…

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Wendy’s accused of negligence after alleged data breach

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Dissent

So on January 27, Brian Krebs revealed that Wendy’s was looking into whether it had been breached. By February 8 – a long delay by today’s standards – a potential class action lawsuit was filed  by attorneys for Jonathan Torres in the Middle District of Florida.   Robbie Hargett of Legal Newsline has more on the lawsuit:…

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Website selling stolen credit card numbers is shut down

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Dissent

James Dean reports: One of the web’s largest criminal markets for stolen credit and debit cards has gone offline after being exposed by The Times. Bestvalid.cc, which sold personal and financial information stolen from 100,000 Britons for as little as £1.67, disappeared yesterday. Read more on The Times (sub. req.)

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NY: Insurer won’t have to cover Five Guys’ data breach

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Dissent

From the read-your-policy-carefully dept., Eric Anderson reports: The operators of several Five Guys restaurants in the Capital Region won’t be able to collect damages from their insurance company after their computer network was breached in late 2011, the state Appellate Division ruled Thursday. RSVT Holdings, the restaurant operator, had sought to be reimbursed for losses…

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Data Broker Defendants Settle FTC Charges They Sold Sensitive Personal Information to Scammers

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Dissent

A group of defendants have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they knowingly provided scammers with hundreds of thousands of consumers’ sensitive personal information – including Social Security and bank account numbers. The proposed federal court orders prohibit John Ayers, LeapLab and Leads Company from selling or transferring sensitive personal information about consumers to third parties. The defendants will also…

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Memphis man accused of using stolen patient identity information to defraud banks of $1.6 million

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Dissent

Fox13 reports that Jeremy Jones of Memphis was indicated in federal court for his role in a bank fraud scheme that involved more than $1.6 million. The affidavit of complaint against Jeremy Jones said he started stealing identities of patients of Memphis Neurology back in 2011, and he used those identities to bilk various banks…

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