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CA: Pittsburg residents charged with stolen identity refund fraud

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Dissent

OAKLAND –A federal grand jury indicted Michael Johnson and Nicole Berry with conspiracy to file false claims, filing false claims, theft of public money, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and effecting fraudulent transactions with access devices. According to the indictment, between February 2012 and May 2012, Johnson and Berry, both from Pittsburg, California, conspired to…

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HHS Settles Charges Against Cornell Prescription Pharmacy Over Disposal of Records

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Dissent

Cornell Prescription Pharmacy (Cornell) has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Cornell will pay $125,000 and adopt a corrective action plan to correct deficiencies in its HIPAA compliance program….

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TX: Killeen Trio Sentenced to Federal Prison for Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Dissent

Three Killeen, TX, residents were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a tax refund scheme with an estimated intended loss of $1.8 million. United States District Judge Lee Yeakel sentenced 34-year-old Albert Powell, 32-year-old Paris Stephens and 34-year-old Ronnie Cole to 54 months, 36 months and 18 months in federal prison, respectively.  Judge Yeakel…

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OH: Springfield Regional Medical Center patients notified of #HIPAA breach due to mailing error

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Dissent

Katie Wedell reports: Community Mercy Health Partners, operator of the Springfield Regional Medical Center, has alerted patients to a data breach that occurred in February. Invoices for about 2,000 patients containing names, addresses, billing codes such as diagnosis and procedural codes, service dates and locations, and account balances were inadvertently sent to incorrect people. Read more on…

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Sony files Motion to Dismiss class-action; argues no ID theft = no standing

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Dissent

Josh Dickey reports: No one has been the victim of identity theft in the five months since the cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment exposed reams of sensitive data, so a class-action lawsuit should be dismissed, the studio argues in court documents acquired Friday by Mashable. Read more on Mashable.  

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Verifone statement on default password Z66831

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Dissent

Earlier today, DataBreaches.net asked Verifone for a comment or response to the report about an unnamed firm using the same default password for 25 years, as it was pretty easy to figure out from a Google search that an unnamed vendor was them. Gene Cyranski, Vice President of Zeno Group kindly sent this statement in response: The Verifone default…

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