Lance Griffin reports the latest in the case of a Flowers Hospital employee who was convicted of stealing patient information for a tax refund fraud scheme. The breach, which was first disclosed last year, has resulted in a lawsuit against the hospital and its parent company, as well as an interesting prosecution in which the…
Category: ID Theft
Kalahari Resorts in Wisconsin and Ohio hit by payment card breach
From their notice of December 1 (and no, this isn’t related to the Starwood properties’ breach disclosed recently): Kalahari Resorts recently became aware of a possible security incident involving credit and debit card data reportedly used at our food & beverage, retail and spa outlets at our Wisconsin (1305 Kalahari Dr., Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965)…
Bridgeport home healthcare aid arrested for stealing identity of 81-year-old
Fox61 reports that Philiann Barnett, 36, of Bridgeport, Connecticut has been arrested for the third time this year on charges of identity theft. In all three cases, she was working as a home healthcare aide to a senior with diminished mental capacity. According to Fox61, Barnett has been known to use the aliases Nikki Daley, Nikki…
NY: Blauvelt car salesman stole customer IDs: cops
Mike Donofrio reports that a car salesman employed at Rockland Nissan in Blauvelt has been arrested and charged with using customers’ information to open credit cards. Read more on LoHud.
Maine’s Yellowfront Grocery hit by payment card breach
Yellowfront Grocery in Damariscotta, Maine, notified its customers via Facebook that it had experienced a point-of-sale (POS) breach on Oct 23. SCMagazine has some of the details. h/t, @VERISDB
Feds round up 50 suspects in latest ID theft-tax fraud sweep in South Florida
Jay Weaver reports: Federal agents arrested about 50 people on identity theft and tax fraud charges across South Florida over the past week, including a couple of suspects accused of breaking into an Internal Revenue Service database to steal supposedly secret information from taxpayers and file fraudulent refund claims in their names. Read more on Miami…