Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today charged Treatment Associates of Victoria Inc., with violating the Texas Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act. According to court documents, the San Antonio-based drug testing and rehabilitation facility violated a state law that requires businesses to protect their customers’ sensitive information. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) launched…
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UK: Inquiry after patient records found dumped
Matt Wilkinson reports: An investigation has been launched into how a file loaded with confidential information on vulnerable mental health patients was picked up by a shopper in Oxford. A member of the public found the folder — lost by Bromford Housing Group — at Templars Square shopping centre in Cowley. The folder contained personal…
Iowa chiropractor faces fraud charges
A Cedar Rapids chiropractor is facing nearly 40 counts of fraud, identity theft and money laundering. Douglas P. Dvorak was charged in an indictment filed this week in the U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids. The indictment alleges that 45-year-old Dvorak submitted false Medicaid claims for chiropractic services he never provided. It also says he…
GA: Hospice Records All Over Shorter Avenue
Patient records from Heyman Hospice Care were scattered all over streets in west Rome around 10:00 this morning. City police have confirmed that records were found on the streets in the area of Howell Motor Cars near Division Street. When contacted, officials from the Hospice indicated that any comment would have to come from the…
UK: Hospital finds "lost" discs which sparked identity theft warning
WHITTINGTON Hospital wasted £25,000 after wrongly announcing that confidential details of thousands of staff members had been “lost in the post”. A farcical fortnight at the Highgate hospital “which included a police investigation and letters being sent to 18,000 staff warning that they could become victims of identity fraud” ended with hospital bosses announcing on…
CA: Drugstore's old job applications found in dumpster
Old job applications of hundreds of people who sought employment at a former Rite-Aid drugstore were found tossed into an open dumpster Wednesday behind the now-shuttered store, revealing sensitive information of applicants that included Social Security numbers, phone numbers and addresses. [..] Some of the applications date back to 1996 and 1997, when it was…