Evens Claude, 38, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced on Friday, August 29, 2014, to 232 months in prison for aggravated identity theft, bank fraud, access device fraud, counterfeit currency fraud, and conspiracy. U.S. District Court Judge Jan E. DuBois also ordered Claude to pay $609,210 in restitution. Claude represented himself at sentencing. Between 2008 and…
NC: Medicaid Provider Pleads to Federal Fraud Charges
GREENSBORO, N.C. – A Timberlake, North Carolina, woman pleaded guilty to health care fraud and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina. Tracie Yvette Clay, 46, of Timberlake, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in federal court in Greensboro before Chief United States District Court Judge William L. Osteen, Jr.,…
DE: Man Charged in $4 Million Tax Fraud Scheme Involving Hundreds of Stolen Identities
I’m not really sure whether this belongs on this blog on phiprivacy.net because they don’t tell us where/how the identity information was obtained, so I am posting it here: WILMINGTON, Del. – Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that an Indictment has been handed down by a federal…
Harry Barker, Omega Net, Geekface, SuperValu Data Breaches Measured
I’ve covered three of these breaches on this blog before, but idRADAR has some new details and includes a breach I hadn’t covered, involving HarryBarker.com: It’s often tough to know how serious a data breach is in the days immediately following discovery. Some companies like to dance around the specifics. In other cases, there are…
UK: Computer hacker shut down Derbyshire holiday firm website in dispute over payment
Martin Naylor reports: A computer hacker shut down the website of a Derbyshire holiday firm with which he was in dispute “in an act of petty revenge”. A judge told Glyn Berrington that what he had done to Ashbourne-based Menorca Private Owners “was like stealing a workman’s tools”. Derby Crown Court heard how Berrington, 49, had that…
Peterborough lawsuit to set precedent for Ontario patient privacy rights
Joel Eastwood reports: Patients looking for answers after a string of privacy breaches at GTA hospitals must wait on a lawsuit in Peterborough that could have sweeping implications for all Ontario hospitals. The class action suit against Peterborough Regional Health Centre will determine whether a patient can sue a hospital for invasion of privacy. A similar lawsuit…