Back in October, I noted a somewhat unusual case of a credit union employee who misused customers’ information to take out loans to fund her son’s death row appeal. Yesterday, 47-year-old Nazreen Mohammed was sentenced in Orlando to five years in federal prison and three years of probation for bank fraud and identity theft. She…
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PA: Million dollar ID theft operation busted
David Henry reports: The Justice Department says it has busted an identity theft operation that cost a lot of people a lot of money. Investigators say 44-year-old Anthony Williams was the ring leader. A federal indictment charges him and 15 others with a massive identity theft operation that victimized hundreds of people over three years,…
NZ: Policeman’s leak of data breached privacy law
Jared Savage reports: A police officer who leaked secret information to his wife in a bid to win a custody battle with her ex-husband also breached privacy law, a watchdog has ruled. The Herald revealed in February that an internal police investigation found Senior Constable Terry Beatson used the police National Intelligence Application (NIA) to…
Former Holy Cross Hospital employee sentenced to prison for disclosing patient information
Natasha Lolita Orr, 36, of Miami, a former employee at Holy Cross Hospital, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to disclosing individually identifiable health information. During the previous plea hearing, Orr admitted to stealing patient information from the Holy Cross Hospital Emergency Room during her employment at the hospital. She then sold that stolen…
NM: Former Wells Fargo employee sentenced for ID theft
Roberta Dunsworth, 53, a resident of Espanola, New Mexico, was sentenced this week in federal court to a 24-month term of imprisonment to be followed by one year of supervised release for her aggravated identity fraud conviction. As a condition of her supervised release, Dunsworth must perform 100 hours of community service. She also was…
Patient data stolen from Philadelphia’s Family Planning Council
Robert Moran reports: The Family Planning Council in Philadelphia made public Friday that a computer storage device containing the personal and medical records of about 70,000 patients was stolen in December and remains missing. The theft was blamed on a former worker whose employment ended Dec. 28, the day the theft was discovered and reported…