Tricia Bishop reports: A 53-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison Friday for his role in an identity theft and mail fraud scheme that affected more than 250 victims and lasted nearly 30 years, the Maryland U.S. attorney’s office said. According to the plea agreement, Loquann Johnson and his co-conspirators targeted…
Category: Theft
UK: Patient records on stolen laptop
An NHS trust serving people across south Wales has been criticised after a laptop with details of about 5,000 patients were stolen. Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University NHS Trust was found to have breached data protection laws. The computer, which had patient medical records on it which were not encrypted, was stolen from an unlocked office….
Men Plead Guilty In Metro Election Commission Laptop Theft
Robert Osbourne, Randall Cheek and Brent Rucker pled guilty today to the Christmas Eve 2007 theft of a laptop computer from Metro Election Commission. The laptop contained personal information on every registered voter in Davidson County. Osbourne was sentenced to three years in prison, while the other two men were sentenced to two years’ probation….
Patient data stolen in Japan
Ten patients’ personal information has been lost after a sales vehicle containing a set of documents was stolen from a car park. Details of the physicians looking after the patients are also missing, along with the name, date of birth, age, gender, blood test data and questionnaire sheets detailing reactions to medications of the people…
TX: Hundreds of Records Stolen from St. David’s Medical Plaza
An Austin man is under arrest for taking hundreds of personal records. An arrest affidavit for David Perkins Jr. says he worked as a delivery driver for Austin Archives. Police say he went to pick up medical records at Saint David’s Medical Plaza, but he never went back to work to return them. Perkins is…
OR: Stolen laptop creates a stir at Southwestern
Erica Rush reports: The privacy of hundreds of community college students is put at risk, after someone steals a laptop computer from the campus at Southwestern Oregon Community College. The school issued a press release on Friday stating that a new computer that contained student records for approximately 200 current and former students at Southwestern…