A woman who stole about $72,000 from the bank accounts of patients and dentists at dental offices where she worked as an office manager was sentenced today to five years and four months behind bars. The plea bargain for Emily Marie Forbes included a recommendation that she be allowed to serve her custody in a…
Category: Health Data
700,000 Express Scripts members notified of extortion demands (update 2)
As previously reported here Express Scripts recently updated their breach report on the incident from 2008 involving an extortion demand. Now Dina Wisenberg Brin of Dow Jones Newswires provides some additional details, including the statistic that Express Scripts has now sent out approximately 700,000 individual notification letters, total. The company has not revealed how many…
UK: Care trust reveals theft of patients' data
The personal data of patients from South Devon is in the hands of thieves after a laptop belonging to Torbay Care Trust was stolen, it has been revealed. The incident is just one of 30 occasions when personal data was lost or stolen collectively by Devon NHS staff in the last two years. The laptop…
Doctors mistakenly fax patients' data to Indiana company
Chris Echegaray reports: Doctors’ offices in Tennessee have been accidentally sending patient information, including Social Security numbers and medical histories, to an Indiana businessman’s fax machine for the past three years. The sensitive medical information was supposed to be sent to the Tennessee Department of Human Services, but Bill Keith, owner of SunRise Solar Inc….
Crawford & Company employee sentenced for ID theft
As a follow-up to a case reported previously, the Associated Press reports that Shanell Bowser has been sentenced to five years in prison and was ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution to the victims of an identity theft scheme. Bowser, who was employed by medical claims adjustment firm Crawford & Company, had access…
Med. claims adjuster sentenced to 18 months for ID theft
Cross-posted from databreaches.net: As a follow-up to a case previously reported here, Stephanie Locke has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for bank fraud and social security misuse. One of the victims, a J.C. Penney employee, Michelle McCambridge, helped when she recognized Locke when Locke came up to her register. More details on KING5.