From WILM: A rental car employee is accused of stealing customers’ identities. Karlvin Zidor is charged with stealing credit card information while working at Enterprise Rent A Car in Milford. The investigation started with Henrico County Police in Virginia, who determined an identity theft ring was getting information from someone in Delaware. Zidor is charged…
Hollywood Medical Assistant Pleads Guilty To Identity Theft
CBS reports: A Hollywood medical assistant has pleaded guilty to two identity theft charges. La Toya Yvette Tillman, 33, used her position at Gastroenterology Consultants in Hollywood to access the Memorial Healthcare System database through her computer at work to steal patient identities, including names, dates of birth, and social security numbers, so that she…
Former Tufts Health Plan employee pleads guilty to data theft
An update to the breach previously noted in April. Now we know it was an insider breach. Priyanka Dayal McCluskey reports: A former employee of Tufts Health Plan pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to stealing thousands of patients’ personal information in a scheme to collect fraudulent Social Security benefits and tax refunds, authorities said….
White-hat hackers lifted 560,000 corporate passwords in 31 days. We’re all screwed.
Richard Byrne Reilly reports: The password you use to log into your company network likely sucks. That’s the maybe-not-so-astonishing revelation from a group white-hat hackers who probe for vulnerabilities in corporate networks for a living. Over the course of a year, the hackers at Trustwave attacked more than 626,000 accounts throughout corporate America and were able to successfully crack…
1.4 Million Taxpayers Exposed to ‘increased risk of fraud and identity theft’ by IRS
J.D. Tuccille writes: The geniuses at the Internal Revenue Service gave sensitive data on over a million taxpayers to a printing contractor wiout checking the bona fides of any of the contractor’s employees, says the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The news comes from a report dated last month but just released to the public. This…
Former Georgia deputy sentenced in identity theft plot
Phil W. Hudson reports: Sean Lydell Street, 39, a former Richmond County, Ga., Deputy Sheriff, was sentenced Aug. 12 to two years in prison for stealing personal identification information to be used as part of a fraudulent tax refund scheme. Street worked for the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office from 2007 through 2012 and during the…