Lora Hines reports: Community Hospital of San Bernardino has been fined a total of $325,000 for breaches of more than 200 patient records by two employees in 2009. Community Hospital is one of five facilities statewide recently fined $675,000 for unauthorized access of nearly 230 medical records for more than 200 patients in violation of…
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Ex-LA Social Worker Charged In $1M Tax Return Scam
A former Los Angeles County social services worker has been charged with filing bogus tax returns using indigent clients’ identities to obtain $1 million in tax refunds. The U.S. attorney’s office said Tuesday that Trang Van Dinh was indicted on 11 counts of identity theft and 11 counts of making false claims to the United…
BofA Call Center Worker Pleads Guilty to Data Theft
Robert McMillan reports: A Bank of America call center employee has pleaded guilty to charges that he stole sensitive client information and then tried to sell it for cash. Brian Matty Hagen pleaded guilty last week to one count of bank fraud. According to court filings he allegedly recorded customer account information when BofA customers…
In: BPO employee held for data theft
A young computer engineer was nabbed by the company authorities for data theft from the company computer and uploading it on another data sharing site for future use. He was nabbed by city cyber cell officials on Saturday. According to cyber cell officials, they had received a complaint from Satellite police station officials where Anand…
UK: Drug dealer who copied police files jailed and fined £1,250
Angus Howarth reports: A drug-dealing police worker caught with secret work documents at her home was jailed for over two years yesterday. Laura Young copied crime files and police reports while working at Grampian Police headquarters in Aberdeen. The 22-year-old even showed a confidential file to the person concerned in the report. She also obtained…
Flight school employee sentenced for debit card fraud
Troy Caleb Wood, 37, of Oregon City, Oregon, and formerly of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for access device fraud, the U. S. Attorney’s Office announced. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge also ordered Wood to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, and to pay…