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FL: Boynton Beach Resident Pleads Guilty to Participating in an Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Dissent

A Boynton Beach resident pled guilty to possessing heroin and participating in an identity theft tax refund fraud scheme. Christopher Richard Edwards, 25, of Boynton Beach, pled guilty today to possession with intent to distribute heroin, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, and making a material false statement by filing a false tax return with the…

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Former U.S. Postal Service Employee Sentenced To Federal Prison For Theft Of Postal Funds And Identity Theft

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Dissent

BATON ROUGE, LA –United States Attorney Walt Green announced that Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced LARONDA D. MOORE, age 38, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, yesterday to serve 32 months in federal prison for her conviction for aggravated identity theft and misappropriation of postal funds. Following her release from prison, MOORE will be…

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American Airlines, Sabre Said to Be Hit in Hacks Backed by China (UPDATED)

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Dissent

Update: American Airlines subsequently denied having been attacked. SCMagazine reports: “There is no indication or evidence of an attack or that any customer data has been compromised,” said American spokesman Casey Norton, adding that, “Because of a threat to a close partner that we work closely with on reservations we are looking closely at our…

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Advanced Data Processing/Intermedix sued over 2012 insider breach

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Dissent

Remember the Advanced Data Processing/Intermedix insider breach of 2012 where a rogue employee provided ambulance patient identity information to others involved in a tax refund fraud scheme? I had covered it on PHIprivacy.net (cf here and here for just two of the posts) and also on this site (cf, this post). In reporting on the breach, one of the…

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VA: Teacher’s file contains personal info on others

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Dissent

Jeremy Lazarus reports: If you teach or have taught for Richmond Public Schools, your colleagues may have access to your personal information. The disclosure that the RPS Human Resources Department is failing to guard confidential records came from a former teacher who found her personnel file contained information it should not have, including Social Security…

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UPDATE: Russia thought to be behind attack on Pentagon Joint Chief of Staff email system

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Dissent

Courtney Kube and Jim Miklaszewski report: U.S. officials tell NBC News that Russia launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” against the Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system, which has been shut down and taken offline for nearly two weeks. According to the officials, the “sophisticated cyber intrusion” occurred sometime around July 25 and affected some 4,000 military…

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