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…
Category: ID Theft
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…
California CPA firm hacked to file fraudulent returns
On August 15, 2016, Wheeler & Egger, CPAs, LLP discovered a data security incident involving their firm and some of their clients whose 2015 tax returns were on Extension. After thorough investigation, they have discovered that the perpetrator(s) hacked into their system, and between August 3rd and 9th 2016, fraudulently filed 45 client tax returns. Letters were mailed to…
Former Employee of Rhode Island Pain Clinic Charged in Connection with Fraudulent Billing Scheme
BOSTON – A former employee of a pain management clinic was charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to falsify patient medical records in order to obtain payments from the Medicare program and commercial insurance companies. Moustafa Moataz Aboshady, 33, an Egyptian national residing in Lake Forest, Calif., was indicted…
CT: Hospital Patients Caught in Identity Theft Ring
NBC reports: Federal investigators say two women orchestrated an identity theft ring that targeted at least 20 people in the greater New Haven area. But it’s how suspects Jamila Williams-Stevenson and Loretta Coburn are said to have gotten some of their victim’s personal information that is most shocking. Authorities said several of the alleged victims…
Guilty Plea of Krystle Steed for Taking Over Hospital Patients’ Bank Accounts
There’s a follow-up on a case previously noted on this site in December of 2015. Here’s the new press release: Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the guilty plea of KRYSTLE STEED, 31, for using personal information stolen from patients of Lenox Hill Hospital to take over victims’ bank accounts and place…