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Indictment charges Flordia eye doc with misdiagnosing and operating on patients needlessly to support Medicare fraud

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Dissent

Here’s yet another case where patients’ records were allegedly purposefully corrupted to support a fraud scheme – resulting in patients allegedly getting serious surgeries and injections they didn’t need, and putting them at risk for future improper treatment should those records be used by others. Salomon E. Melgen, 60, is an ophthalmologist and retina specialist licensed to…

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Tax refund fraud victims blame Anthem breach, but attribution is difficult with so many breaches

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Dissent

Luther Turmelle reports: A spike in the number of fraudulent state income tax returns filed in Connecticut has led some Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield customers to believe that it is the result of the massive data breach the insurer revealed in early February. Officials with state Attorney General George Jepsen’s office acknowledge they…

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Northwestern U. hacked, but no personal info on server

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Dissent

Part of Northwestern University‘s network has been offline for over a week as a result of a hack first disclosed on Twitter. On April 5, “MLT” reported a XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) vulnerability on XSSposed.org involving themayor.itcs.northwestern.edu. And then this happened: Some Random University Login page : http://themayor.itcs.northwestern.edu/user.php?error=1 Admin Email : [email protected] Password : manager Yours Truly, ~Chief. — Chief (@Puttied) April…

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Former Montgomery Nightclub Owner Sentenced to Prison for Role as Ringleader of Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Dissent

Tarrish Tellis, 38, owned the Club Iconz Bar and Grill in Montgomery, Alabama. He was also the mastermind behind a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme that stole over $700,000. Yesterday, Tellis was sentenced to 223 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $694,366 in restitution. On Jan. 14, a federal jury convicted Tellis of…

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Randall Charles Tucker accused of hacking Arizona Department of Child Safety

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Dissent

Deborah Stocks reports: A 20-year-old man from Apache Junction is jailed without bond, accused of computer tampering after he allegedly hacked into Arizona government agencies. A search warrant was served at the home of Randall Charles Tucker on Thursday after a six-month investigation, according to court documents. According to authorities, Tucker had used the name…

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Former member of SwaggSec sentenced to 3 years in prison for attacks on DirecTV, Farmers Insurance, and L.A. Dept. of Public Works

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Dissent

Nancy Dillon reports that a 32-year old hacker who used the online names of “fame” and “infam0us” and was part of SwaggSec has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in attacking DirecTV, Farmers Insurance and the Los Angeles Department of Public Works: Mario Patrick Chuisano was sentenced in U.S. District Court in…

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