July 17 – Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Friday filed one felony count of each Medicaid fraud and identity theft against an Oklahoma City behavioral health specialist. Timothy Nickalas Traylor, 35, of Oklahoma City, allegedly billed the Oklahoma Health Care Authority for 56 phony sessions between October 2011 and October 2013 while working for Pennington Creek Lifehouse,…
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MI: Farmington Hills man accused of hospital ID theft takes plea deal; second suspect still negotiating
Matt Fahr reports that two people accused of participating in an identification theft scam involving 1,400 patients of Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital and DMC Harper Hospital in Detroit are in the process of taking plea deals. Martez Lear, 29 of Farmington Hills and Markitta Washington, 29 of Hampton, Georgia and formerly of Farmington Hills, were indicted…
Personal info of 700K is public record
Natasha Lindstrom reports: They didn’t mean to do it. Not the scholarship funds, alumni associations or garden clubs. Not the nonprofit hospitals, union groups or corporate foundation arms. Yet more than 130,000 tax-exempt organizations unwittingly leaked hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers belonging to unsuspecting board members, donors, employees and college students. […] More…
Former U.S. Marine Charged with Stealing Identities of Fellow Service Personnel in Scheme to Defraud Navy Federal Credit Union of More Than $138,000
CHICAGO—A former United States Marine from Calumet City stole the identities of several fellow Marines and used their information to illegally procure more than $138,000 from Navy Federal Credit Union, according to an indictment returned this week in federal court in Chicago. While serving in Combat Logistics Regiment 3 at Camp Foster in Okinawa, Japan,…
UCLA Health discloses network breach potentially affecting 4.5 million patients
UCLA Health announced today it was a victim of a criminal cyber attack. While the attackers accessed parts of the computer network that contain personal and medical information, UCLA Health has no evidence at this time that the cyber attacker actually accessed or acquired any individual’s personal or medical information. UCLA Health estimates that data…
CVS Probes Card Breach at Online Photo Unit
It’s not just Walmart Canada whose customers were affected by a breach involving third-party vendor PNI Digital Media. Brian Krebs reports that CVS was also affected.