Steven Henshaw reports: State police said Friday that they have recovered one of two laptop computers stolen from Albright College’s financial aid office. Troopers said it appears the suspect, who is not a student, stole the computers to trade them for drugs, not the information they contained. The second laptop remains missing and an investigation…
Category: Theft
Identity theft hits doctor’s office, banks
Guillermo Contreras reports: A San Antonio man pleaded guilty this week to possessing numerous medical files stolen from an area doctor, while a local woman was indicted separately for using stolen identifying information in a bank fraud scam. Douglas Allen Ewert, 28, entered the guilty plea Tuesday to fraud related to stolen identification documents after…
PA: Theft Of College Computers May Result In Breach Of Personal Data
WFMZ-TV alerts us to a breach at Albright College in Reading, PA. Although there does not appear to be any easy-to-find notice on the college’s web site at the time of this publication, WFMZ reports: Albright College in Reading is putting its current, prospective, and former students on alert about a possible breach of…
OK State Dept. of Health: Stolen laptop contained personal and medical information on 133,000
A press release from the Oklahoma State Department of Health, issued today: The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) is notifying nearly 133,000 individuals that their names and some personal information may have been contained on an agency laptop computer that was stolen from an OSDH employee’s car last week. A database related to the…
Patient data stolen from Philadelphia’s Family Planning Council
Robert Moran reports: The Family Planning Council in Philadelphia made public Friday that a computer storage device containing the personal and medical records of about 70,000 patients was stolen in December and remains missing. The theft was blamed on a former worker whose employment ended Dec. 28, the day the theft was discovered and reported…
Medical office assistants charged criminally under HIPAA for their part in ID theft ring
A March 15, 2011 indictment of twelve defendants charged for their parts in an identity theft and bank fraud scheme has been unsealed. Two of the defendants, who worked for HIPAA-covered entities in Florida, and have also been charged with HIPAA violations. According to the indictment, Erica Hall was employed by Dr. Linda Green in Coral…