Gulfport, Miss –Milad Kalantari, 31, an Iranian citizen, pleaded guilty on October 6, 2016 before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to conspiracy to commit identity theft and access device fraud, as well as substantive access device fraud, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis of the Southern District of…
Category: ID Theft
University of Central Florida police trace credit card fraud to restaurant malware
Gabrielle Russon reports: UCF police have determined that a vendor whose restaurants had malware on its computers is the potential root of the spike in campus credit card fraud cases last month. The issue was found with AD Food Services, which operates Asian Chao, Huey Magoo’s and the Corner Café in the Student Union, the…
Northwest Community notifies patients of R-C Healthcare breach
It may seem like old news to you by now, but some patients affected by a third-party breach at R-C Healthcare are first finding out about it now. As reported previously on this site, R-C Healthcare had been notified by Bon Secours on June 14 that files with 655,000 of its patients’ records were exposed. The exposure…
NY: Corinth pharmacist used customer ID to steal opioid
Times Union reports: A Saratoga County pharmacist was arrested Monday after she assumed a customer’s identity in order to steal hydrocodone, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office said Mary B. Murphy, 48, of Ballston Spa, was charged with second-degree forgery and first-degree identity theft and falsifying a business record. Read more on Times Union.
Ex-Arkansas hospital orderly sentenced for identity theft
AP reports: A Texas man has been sentenced to two years in prison for theft and for stealing the identities of patients at an Arkansas hospital where he was an orderly. Federal court records show 28-year-old Sir John Ashley Holliday of Dallas was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Little Rock after pleading guilty in May…
GA: Martin Army Community Hospital can’t individually notify 1,000 patients impacted by insider breach that began in 2011
Larry Gierer reports: All patients who received care through the Martin Army Community Hospital healthcare system are alerted that a possible HIPAA breach occurred at Fort Benning between January 2011 and December 2013. According to a news release on Sunday, the breach was discovered after the hospital was alerted of undetected criminal activity involving identity…