Jermaine Winters, 39, of Coleman, Florida, and Rosetta Presley, 23, of Chipley, Florida, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and identity theft in connection with the electronic filing of false federal income tax returns. During their pleas, Winters and Presley admitted that between July 2011 and July 2012, they conspired…
Category: Health Data
Indictment charges Flordia eye doc with misdiagnosing and operating on patients needlessly to support Medicare fraud
Here’s yet another case where patients’ records were allegedly purposefully corrupted to support a fraud scheme – resulting in patients allegedly getting serious surgeries and injections they didn’t need, and putting them at risk for future improper treatment should those records be used by others. Salomon E. Melgen, 60, is an ophthalmologist and retina specialist licensed to…
Tax refund fraud victims blame Anthem breach, but attribution is difficult with so many breaches
Luther Turmelle reports: A spike in the number of fraudulent state income tax returns filed in Connecticut has led some Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield customers to believe that it is the result of the massive data breach the insurer revealed in early February. Officials with state Attorney General George Jepsen’s office acknowledge they…
Former member of SwaggSec sentenced to 3 years in prison for attacks on DirecTV, Farmers Insurance, and L.A. Dept. of Public Works
Nancy Dillon reports that a 32-year old hacker who used the online names of “fame” and “infam0us” and was part of SwaggSec has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in attacking DirecTV, Farmers Insurance and the Los Angeles Department of Public Works: Mario Patrick Chuisano was sentenced in U.S. District Court in…
American Sleep Medicine patients notified of stolen hard drive
American Sleep Medicine of San Diego, which describes itself as conducting more than 4,000 sleep studies each year, is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that some of their personal information was on an external hard drive stolen from a locked server room. The theft was discovered on March 3rd and reported to the San Diego Police Department….
Curious employee breached privacy of 39 patients, Island Health authority admits
Canadian Press reports: The health authority on Vancouver Island says an employee who had nothing to do with the care of 39 patients accessed their health records out of curiosity about friends or neighbours. Suzanne Germain, of Island Health, said an investigation began last November after allegations that a longtime worker was looking at confidential…