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Pharmacy benefits management firm notifies clients’ employees whose data were stolen by employee for tax refund fraud (update1)

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Dissent

Tampa-based My Matrixx provides pharmacy and ancillary services for workers’ compensation programs. In November 2013, they were contacted by federal law enforcement and notified that a former employee of theirs in Florida was under investigation for filing fraudulent tax returns. By that time, the employee was no longer in their employ, but they were asked not…

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Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children notifies vendors after tax information exposed

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Dissent

The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children joins the ranks of those who experience a mailing error that exposes vendors’ Form 1099 to others. The Form 1099 contained vendors’ names, addresses, monies earned, and Social Security numbers.  In this case, some vendors received their own Form 1099 as well as a second…

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Olmstead Medical Center breach update

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Dissent

KAAL-TV reports: It was reported to the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office that an employee at the Olmsted Medical Center in Byron had their tax information stolen and the IRS has already sent their tax return to someone else. The Rochester Police Department told us they’ve had about a dozen reports of this happening. This comes…

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Hackers used previously unknown Internet Explorer flaw in new attacks

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Dissent

Joseph Menn reports: A previously unknown flaw in a recent version of Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer web browser is being used to attack Internet users, including some visitors to a major site for U.S. military veterans, researchers said Thursday. Security firm FireEye Inc discovered the attacks against IE 10 this week, saying that hundreds or…

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Ex-Miami cop gets 12 years for ID theft, tax fraud

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Dissent

There’s another update to a case involving corrupt Miami law enforcement officers previously covered on this blog.  Jay Weaver of the Miami Herald recently reported that Malinsky Bazile was sentenced to 12 years in prison  for stealing hundreds of people’s names from a Florida driver’s license database to score $140,000 in fraudulent income-tax refunds (h/t, eSecurityPlanet). 

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Paragon Benefits employee pleads guilty to stealing TSYS and Kelley Mfg. employee data

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Dissent

Brittany Dionne reports the update to a case previously noted on this blog: The man accused of identity theft of more than 5,000 people at TSYS has pleaded guilty. Drew Johnson pleaded guilty to Unlawful Transfer and Possession or Use of a Means of Identification this morning at the federal courthouse in Columbus. The 26-year-old…

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