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MD: Insurance company clerk admits to identity theft and bank fraud scheme

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Dissent

Baltimore Woman and Co-Schemers Fraudulently Obtained At Least $174,000 in Cash and Merchandise from 89 Individual Victims in a Three Year Period Baltimore, Maryland – Shanell Angelia Bowser, age 30, of Baltimore pleaded guilty today to stealing personal identifying information of insurance claimants from her employer to fraudulently obtain credit used to purchase merchandise and…

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ME: Printing glitch leads to ‘breach’

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Dissent

Betty Adams of The Kennebec Journal reports: Almost 600 people receiving unemployment benefits last week got direct-deposit information — including Social Security numbers — belonging to another person. Dick Thompson, head of the state Office of Information Technology, said the misinformation was sent out May 27 while the office produced material for the Department of…

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Update: Virginia notifies residents of Prescription Monitoring Program hack

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Dissent

Bill Sizemore of The Virginian-Pilot reports that the state is sending breach notifications to 530,000 Virginians whose Social Security numbers may have been  in the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program database that was hacked on April 30.  An additional 1,400  users of the database  who may have provided Social Security numbers when they registered for the…

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Sony notifies 5000 customers of credit card breach

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Dissent

A recent security breach at the Park Ridge, New Jersey headquarters of Sony Card Marketing & Services Company (CMSC) affected customers who signed up for the Sony Rewards program. According to a letter sent by John Briesch, the President of CMSC, to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, CMSC discovered that “unauthorized copies were made…

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OIS Commentary: And some walls will come tumbling down

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Dissent

One of yesterday’s posts on PHIprivacy.net reports a data breach involving Kelsey-Seybold Clinic that has not been reported in the mainstream media. I contacted Kelsey-Seybold after a site visitor alerted me to the breach. The report is frustratingly short on details, though, because Kelsey-Seybold could — and did — simply ignore questions it did not…

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Follow-up: No charges will be filed for improper disposal of medical records

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Dissent

The Catoosa County News provides a follow-up on a case I had reported here: The family member of the doctor whose sensitive medical records were found in a dumpster in Hixon, Tenn., two weeks ago will not be charged with any crime. According to Jerri Weary, public information officer with the Chattanooga Police Department: The…

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