Rod Walton reports: Online banking bandits pulled thousands of dollars from the accounts of current and former SemGroup LP employees after personal information was inadvertently left on a bankruptcy court document made public last summer. SemGroup officials said, however, that as far as they are aware, all the money was returned to the accounts and…
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CO: ID theft suspects charged
The Denver District Attorney’s office has charged two adults suspected of stealing hundreds of people’s identities out of homes, cars, hotels and a local hospital. Paul Simmons, 46, was charged with one count of identity theft, one count of forgery, possession of forged instruments and one count of theft of medical records. Dawn Philbin, 51,…
UT: Man sentenced in theft of medical records
AP is reporting: A man accused of stealing the medical records of more than 1.5 million patients from the University of Utah’s hospital and clinics will spend one year in jail. Shadd D. Hartman pleaded guilty in December to misdemeanor charges of theft by receiving stolen property and attempted possession of another’s identification documents. Read…
CO: 150 missing hospital patient records found
All 150 patient records missing for three months from Saint Joseph Hospital and Lutheran Medical Center have been found, according to Exempla Healthcare and FedEx. The documents had been lost by FedEx while being shipped between two third-party groups doing compliance and audit checks to make sure Exempla Healthcare meets complex Medicare requirements. FedEx spokesman…
CO: ‘Anti-Gym’ Personal Records Found In Dumpster
Rick Sallinger reports: Personal information on clients of a now-shuttered Denver gym has turned up in a very public place. Two weeks ago the Internal Revenue Service shut down the “Anti-Gym” for non-payment of payroll taxes. Somehow many of the gym’s records turned up outside in the trash. … There was information about gay relationships,…
CA: 54 workers face charges of ID theft
Jerry Berrios reports: Fifty-four employees of a Valencia DVD company were charged Monday with using false documents, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. The charges followed a raid Thursday on L&M Optical Disc West in which authorities arrested 55 individuals in connection with a variety of identity-theft-related crimes. Prosecutors declined to file…