Richard Craver reports: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center said Wednesday that it has fired an employee who had boxes of medical records and documents in a home she owns. Wake Forest Baptist, in a statement, did not identify the employee. According to Forsyth County tax records, the home is owned by Linda-Carolyn Bowden Turner, who could not be…
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Ca: Mountie docked pay for snooping in database [repost]
[repost] Gary Dimmock reports: A disgraced Mountie has been docked eight days pay after an internal investigation revealed the constable had made numerous unauthorized checks on the force’s national crime data bank and shared some of the information with his wife, an associate and former business partner of a Hells Angel. Const. Todd Glasman became…
IL: Medical center employee sentenced to 8 years for ID thefts
Mary Shenk reports: Patricia Castor of Mahomet fought back tears as she told a judge how her late mother lived in fear after her wallet was stolen by an employee of an Urbana hospital where she was a patient. […] The wallet and identity thief was Karen Dooley, 30, of Champaign, a “transporter” for Provena Covenant…
WikiLeaks accused Bradley Manning ‘should never have been sent to Iraq’
I realize that readers may be surprised to see a news story with that headline linked from this blog, but if you read the report by Maggie O’Kane, Chavala Madlena and Guy Grandjean, you’ll see that as much as it reports on Manning’s mental health before and during deployment, it also reveals a lot of reportedly…
DA Announces Bust of Brooklyn-Based Identity Theft, Check Forgery Ring
Authorities announced the bust of a Brooklyn-based identity theft ring that stole personal information of customers at various banks, using it to create and cash fake checks. In one case a bank worker was even involved in the scheme, according to the DA. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said 28 people were indicted Wednesday in…
BofA Breach: ‘A Big, Scary Story’
Tracy Kitten reports: An internal breach at U.S. financial giant Bank of America shows how some corporations do not focus enough attention on mitigating internal fraud risks. According to news reports, a BofA employee with access to accountholder information allegedly leaked personally identifiable information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, bank account…