The News & Observer reports that Melissa Swain Parrish, a contract insurance agent with Miracle Insurance Co., has been arrested and charged with ID theft and obtaining property by false pretenses for allegedly stealing the identities of more than 100 people and collecting commissions by enrolling them in Medicare Advantage plans. Some of the people…
Category: U.S.
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Laura Bustamante, who worked for the Utah Department of Workforce Services, was sentenced to three years in prison for her role in an ID theft ring. Previous coverage here. Tiina Eldridge and Jean Paul Rudahunga were arrested after they were found in possession of fraudulent credit cards and credit card data…
CA: Security breach at SCC inspires shredding changes
Sarah Rohrs reports that a computer printout containing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of students in the 2008 graduating class of Solano Community College accidentally got mixed in with scrap paper used in a mathematics lab. The college believes it recovered all of the pages.
Jackson Memorial Hospital statement on data theft
John Dorschner of the Miami Herald reports that personal information of more than 200,000 visitors to Jackson Memorial Hospital between May 2007 and March 2008 was on a hard drive that was stolen from the hospital’s mainframe data center on or before February 11. According to the hospital’s CIO, no Social Security numbers or financial…
TX: Medical Records Found Flying Around Parking Lot
MSNBC has a small item from NBCDFW.com that a Dallas man found a box full of medical records that included Social Security numbers in a parking lot after someone reportedly broke into a doctor’s storage unit. Neither the name of the doctor nor the name of the storage facility were indicated in the news story.
ID theft feared as files found in street in East New York, Brooklyn
I know that most of the world is more concerned with electronic data breaches than paper breaches, but I’ve always been as concerned, and in some cases, more concerned, about paper breaches. Here’s another example from New York, reported by Veronika Belenkaya of the NY Daily News: Dozens of confidential files with city public housing…