Andy Newman reports that police suspect an H & R Block employee of misusing customer data to obtain fraudulent refunds. Former customers who have been affected filed a lawsuit against H & R Block this week. Read more in the New York Times.
Category: Breach Incidents
Woman charged with using Tulsa hospital information in fraud plot
David Harper reports: A Sand Springs woman has been indicted on allegations that she used personal identifying information she garnered from her then-employer’s computer system as part of a fraudulent credit card and stolen mail scheme. Betty R. Warden, 45, exceeded her authorized computer-access authority at St. Francis Hospital to obtain things such as Social…
Hospital Says Patient Info Missing
Providence Hospital (Michigan), like all medical facilities, is required by federal law to safeguard patients’ private information. But the hospital has sent letters alerting patients that a hard drive used for backing up data has been “lost or stolen from a locked office suite.” The hospital explained that the data included patient names, medical record…
TN: Medical Records, Waste Dumped In Mansion
Jeremy Finley reports: State health officials and emergency management officials are trying to determine who dumped piles of medical records and waste in an abandoned Springfield mansion. […] There are rooms filled with medical records, boxes and boxes of the most private of information, all laying alongside the medical waste, discarded like trash. It’s also…
Computer Crooks Steal $100,000 from Ill. Town
Brian Krebs reports on another municipality that has been victimized by cybercrooks: A rash of home foreclosures and abandoned dwellings had already taken its toll on the tax revenue for the Village of Summit, a town of 10,000 just outside Chicago. Then, in March, computer crooks broke into the town’s online bank account, making off…
IL: Detectives solve ID thefts; victims ate at same restaurant
Madison County sheriff’s detectives say their big break in solving a string of identity-theft cases was when they learned all four victims dined recently at the same restaurant – Amarillo Tex’s Steakhouse. The information from their credit cards was stolen using a small device called a “skimmer.” Detectives learned that an employee of the restaurant…