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…
Category: Breach Incidents
VA: 35,000 residents’ SSNs compromised when Accomack County laptop stolen on employee’s vacation to Vegas
We all know how I love reporting on laptops stolen from cars because it’s just such an unusual thing and no one could have possibly foreseen it, right? Ted Shockley reports: An Accomack employee had a county-owned laptop computer stolen while on a personal vacation to Las Vegas, and with it the names and Social…
A puzzling USAA Federal Savings Bank breach report and 10 more reports
Here are another 11 breach notifications submitted to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. These were filed in May and June, and in all but one case, we didn’t know about them through the media or other sources. A breach involving USAA Federal Savings Bank had previously been noted on this site, but there’s more 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…
Error by Veterans Affairs vendor exposed 3,936 veterans’ SSN in mailing
In its most recent report to Congress, the Veterans Affairs Department reported that on August 25, 6,299 out of the 69,366 “Benefit Summary” letters intended for veterans and non-veterans in Massachusetts were mailed to incorrect addresses. The letters contained the veterans’ and non-veterans’ benefit information including their claim number, which, in some instances, was the…
UK doctors’ personal data found on used hard drive sold online
There have been many instances in the U.S. of personal data showing up on equipment sold at online and offline auctions. Once such case in the U.K. involved doctors’ data and the company responsible for the data, Healthcare Locums Plc (HCL), a UK specialist healthcare recruitment agency, has now been found in breach of the Data Protection Act…