In the justice system: As an update to a story previously reported, John B. Spencer III, and Donald E. Stoner, both of Lancaster have pleaded guilty to an ID theft scheme that targeted DUI offenders in Pennsylvania by using information provided in their publicly available court records. A grand jury has indicted five men and…
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Indian outsourcing boss arrested for selling medical records
From the Mail Foreign Service: The head of an Indian outsourcing company has been arrested for selling confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals. Police arrested Vikas Dhairyashil Bansode on Tuesday after an undercover investigation revealed the records were being sold for as little as £4 each. Hundreds of…
MD: Possible identity theft reported at Mercy
Brent Jones reports: Baltimore police are investigating a security breach at Mercy Medical Center that left an undisclosed number of patient records open to possible identity theft, according to the Maryland attorney general’s office. The hospital’s vice president for corporate compliance sent a letter to the affected former patients on Monday, saying that a former…
Cops: Social Security numbers stolen from Woodbury company
Joseph Mallia reports: A former employee broke into a Woodbury financial services company, photocopied customers’ Social Security numbers and bank reference numbers and took the photocopied data with him when he left, Nassau police said Tuesday. Christopher Pemberton, 31, was arrested Monday and charged with burglary. He had worked at Obsidian for six days in…
B.C. Insurance Council concerned about confidentiality breaches
The Insurance Council of British Columbia, which licenses and regulates the province’s insurance agents, salespersons and adjusters, says it is concerned about the number of breaches in confidentiality it has encountered over the last 12 to 18 months. “Licensees handle and have access to a large amount of confidential information and their clients depend upon…
FSA condemns weak controls at UBS that allowed rogue traders to flourish
Michael Herman reports: The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined UBS £8 million for weak controls that allowed staff in its private bank to make thousands of unauthorised trades with clients’ money and then hide the losses. It is the third-largest fine awarded by the FSA. Four private bankers in UBS’s London office were able…