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WI: Ex-VA worker charged with stealing identities from hospital, mail from neighbors

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Dissent

Ed Treleven reports: A former Veterans Hospital lab worker used information stolen from VA records, from mail stolen from her neighbors and information purchased on the Internet to obtain credit cards and access other people’s checking accounts, according to criminal charges filed this week. Elizabeth Feng, 23, of Madison, was charged Thursday with 17 counts…

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MO: Former Programmer Pleads Guilty to Stealing Software Code from Federal Reserve Bank

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Dissent

Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former software programmer for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing software code. Hamid Reza Tahmasebi, 54, of Leawood, Kan., waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. District…

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Court’s Interpretation of Merchant Services Agreement Limits Retailer’s Liability to Card Brands for Data Breach

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Dissent

Gregory Bautista and Melissa Ventrone of Wilson Elser write: On January 15, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri ruled that fees, assessments and costs imposed by the credit card brands on Schnuck Markets, Inc. (Schnuck), a grocery chain estimated to have had 2.4 million customers’ credit and debit card information compromised by…

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Vidant Health leaking PHI since at least September – security firm (updated)

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Dissent

SLC Security posted this yesterday: Second Note: Vidant Health – Greenville, NC Just a quick update that we are still seeing issues with Vidant Health which we previous reported. On October 1, 2014, SLC Security had posted: DISCLOSURE: Vidant Medical Center (www.vidanthealth.com) Leaking PHI to include locations, patient names, diagnosis, age, birthdates and identifying features such…

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Miami Resident Sentenced In Identity Theft Tax Fraud Scheme Involving Medical Patients’ Personal Identifying Information

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to a breach previously reported on PHIprivacy.net. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida reports that Kenol Augustin, 36, was sentenced  to 16 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay joint and several restitution of $57,000, for his role in the tax refund…

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US hacking accused Lauri Love ‘had stolen government data’

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Dissent

BBC reports: A British man accused of hacking into US government software networks had a computer that appeared to have “stolen” information on it, a court heard. Lauri Love, 30, of Suffolk, who faces no charges in the UK, is seeking the return of machines seized by police. But, at Bury St Edmunds Magistrates’ Court,…

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