Tom Spalding reports: A 28-year-old Indianapolis man was sentenced today to two years in state prison for trying to extort $208,00 from an insurance company after stealing a computer server. Kevin M. Stewart was the first to be prosecuted under a law that makes it a crime to commit extortion with material from a protected…
Category: U.S.
Health care: A ‘goldmine’ for fraudsters
Parija Kavilanz reports: There’s a group of people who really love the U.S. health care system — the fraudsters, scammers and organized criminal gangs who are bilking the system of as much as $100 billion a year. Health care identity theft dominated all other crimes in the sector last year, according to Louis Saccoccio, executive…
NY: Hackers pluck 8,300 customer logins from bank server (updated)
Dan Goodin reports: Hackers have stolen the login credentials for more than 8,300 customers of small New York bank after breaching its security and accessing a server that hosted its online banking system. The intrusion at Suffolk County National Bank happened over a six-day period that started on November 18, according to a release (PDF)…
Kaiser Patient Data Stolen (updated)
KCRA reports: Information regarding approximately 15,000 Kaiser Permanente patients, including about 4,000 people in the Sacramento area, was stolen in December, the organization said Tuesday. Names and medical record numbers — and in some cases age, gender, phone number and general information regarding their medical care — were taken Dec. 1 when an external electronic…
(follow-up) TN: Man Who Worked For Colo. Company Gets Prison Time For ID Theft
As a follow-up to a story reported here in April: A former child support worker has been sentenced to 43 months in prison for aggravated identity theft and fraud. Steven K. Gilmore, 29, of Nashville, was sentenced Monday for selling Social Security and bank account numbers. […] Prosecutors said Gilmore sold to an informant more…
(follow-up) Belleville woman sentenced to four years for fraud
A Belleville woman was sentenced Friday to more than four years in federal prison for fraud. Jennifer Lynn Schoenbeck, 31, was convicted of three counts wire fraud, four counts mail fraud and one count aggravated identity theft, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. She pleaded guilty to the charges on June…