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Indiana State Medical Association discloses theft of backup drives with 39,090 members’ health insurance information

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Dissent

A statement from ISMA: The Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) experienced the theft of two archive backup hard drives on Feb. 13, 2015. The equipment stored the ISMA group health and life insurance databases, which contained information on 39,090 insureds. This was a random criminal act that occurred while an ISMA employee was transporting the…

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Sonoma County social worker sued for snooping in applicant’s files

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Dissent

Sometimes employees snoop in healthcare or government databases just out of curiosity. Other times, they snoop to obtain information to misuse. That misuse could involve financial fraud such as tax refund fraud, or it could involve tormenting your neighbor, according to a lawsuit in Santa Rosa, California. Paul Payne of the Press Democrat reported on a case…

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NCUA releases OIG report on Oct. Palm Springs FCU data breach

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to a Palm Springs Federal Credit Union breach reported last year. The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) writes: The National Credit Union Administration’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released a review regarding a data breach that occurred late last year. The agency confirmed that an external flash drive containing personal information for approximately…

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Alabama And Georgia Residents Sentenced To Prison For Their Participation In $3 Million Identity Theft Scheme

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

A Phenix City, Alabama, resident was sentenced yesterday to serve 111 months in prison for her role in a more than $3 million Stolen Identity Refund Fraud (SIRF) tax scheme. Carnesha Alexander was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $840,692. On Feb. 5, a…

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Possible ISIS group hacks into 2 local websites

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

KSDK staff report: Two local websites are back up and running after they were hacked by a group that claimed to be the Middle East terror organization ISIS. The two companies that were impacted were MERS Goodwill and a local digital agency named Elasticity. Early Friday morning, web users who went to the site saw…

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Ex-Pratt & Whitney Engineer Denied Bail In Data Theft Suit

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

Daniel Wilson reports: A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday denied bail to a former Pratt & Whitney engineer accused of stealing sensitive proprietary military aircraft information and unlawfully attempting to take that information to China, after prosecutors argued he was an “obvious” flight risk. Yu Long has been charged with printing out proprietary documents related to advanced materials…

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