From News12 in Oklahoma: Thursday, several banks are assuring customers their personal information is safe after more than one hundred credit and debit card numbers were stolen from five Durant banks and tens of thousands of dollars lost. Durant police have joined with the Secret Service to help investigate the crimes. So far, investigators said…
Category: ID Theft
Help track the Advanced Data Processing – Intermedix breach
Regular readers know how I hate it when companies are not sufficiently transparent about breaches, – where “sufficiently” is defined by MY standards and not just what the law may require. So when Epsilon didn’t provide a list of affected clients, this blog compiled our own list with the help of readers and affected consumers. And…
I know what GoTickets.com did last summer
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry asking how many breaches GoTickets.com had really experienced. At the time, it appeared that they had had one breach in May 2012, which they reported to California (and, as I recently learned, New Hampshire and Maryland), but there was a puzzling report from American Express that…
GAO: Total Extent of Refund Fraud Using Stolen Identities is Unknown
Perfect timing, as I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have many answers. What the GAO found (from their summary): Understanding the extent and nature of identity theft-related refund fraud is important to crafting a response to it, but Internal Revenue Service (IRS) managers recognize that they do not have…
Advanced Data Processing employee accessed and disclosed ambulance patients’ info to others for tax refund fraud scheme
Advanced Data Processing, a subsidiary of Intermedix Corp. that does business as ADPI, handles billing for a number of ambulance services throughout the U.S. The Florida-headquartered firm notified the California Attorney General’s Office this week that on October 1, they discovered a rogue employee had been accessing and disclosing patient information to others who used the information to file fraudulent…
North Miami Resident Arrested and Charged with Identity Theft
And yet another tax refund fraud scheme disclosed this week where they don’t tell us how the criminals acquired the identity information: … a twenty (20) count indictment, filed on November 15, 2012, charging Josue Faustin, 20, of North Miami, with conspiracy, possession of unauthorized access devices, aggravated identity theft and theft of government property involving a…