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FL: Another prosecution of fraudsters using student information for tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

Another criminal prosecution announced today involved tax refund fraud using information from Miami-Dade Public School students: United States v. Luis Daniel Lopez Morales and Rigo Octavio Lopez, Case No. 15-2428-MJ-Goodman On April 1, 2015, Luis Daniel Lopez Morales, 19, and Rigo Octavio Lopez, 25, both of North Miami, were charged by criminal complaint for their participation in a…

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FL: Former Aventura Hospital employee charged criminally in ID theft scheme

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

Today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida revealed a prosecution stemming from an insider breach impacting Aventura Hospital patients, although I’m not confident I can figure out which Aventura Hospital breach this is related to (see PHIprivacy.net and this site for previous reports of Aventura Hospital insider breaches). Note that the employee…

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CareerSource South Florida employee stole and sold identity info on public benefits applicants

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced a slew of indictments today. Here’s one that involved a government database: United States v. Cora Eutsay, Case No. 15-2250-MJ-Turnoff Cora Eutsay, 50, of Miami, was charged by criminal complaint with trafficking in and using unauthorized access devices to obtain anything of value, aggregating $1,000…

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NLRB hits Postal Service over response to cyber breach

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

Josh Hicks reports: The National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint calling on the U.S. Postal Service to negotiate with employee groups over how quickly to tell personnel about cyber attacks that affect their personal data. The March 31 action came in response to allegations that the agency violated federal labor law by not…

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CA: Mastermind of $1 Million Medicare Fraud Sentenced to 30 Months

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

I’ve repeatedly noted that Medicare/Medicaid fraud schemes pose significant risks to patients who do not know that their files have now been corrupted by inaccurate or false records used to support a fraud scheme. The following press release from the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California  highlights yet an…

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Franklin & Marshall to notify 356 students whose SSNs were exposed online for two years

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Dissent

There’s been another breach in the education sector, this one involving Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. On March 19, F&M was notified that two Excel sheets with 356 students’ full names and Social Security numbers was exposed on the public portion of their eDisk network.  The files were promptly removed. An investigation revealed…

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