Kyle Clark reports: A nurse who worked at five or more hospitals in the Denver area faces 90 felony charges in a wide-ranging identity theft investigation, 9Wants to Know investigators have learned. Prosecutors suspect a registered nurse working at several hospitals through a nurse staffing agencies improperly accessed patient files to steal Social Security numbers…
VA: Audit: Is the City putting Richmonders’ credit card info at risk
Sandra Jones and Nick Dutton report: A new city audit finds fault with the Department of Finance’s ICVerify system and says that unless changes are made, Richmonders’ credit card information could be at risk. ICVerify, a critical system to the Revenue Administration Division, is a third party software product used to process and record customer…
Update: Cleveland debit card spree getting bigger as more than 1 dozen banks, credit unions affected
More on a breach reported previously on this blog, from Teresa Dixon Murray of the Plain Dealer, who has been all over this breach for the past few weeks: The local debit card fraud breach that was discovered last month is much wider than first realized, striking just about every major bank in the area…
GA: Sandy Springs man charged with ID theft
David Ibata reports: A Sandy Springs man is in Fulton County Jail, charged with more than 100 counts of identity theft, after police investigating the odor of burning marijuana discovered much more than pot in the man’s apartment, authorities said. […] Investigators spotted a notebook containing people’s names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and PIN…
Judge: Comerica must pay company hit in phishing attack
David Ashenfelter reports on a ruling in a case with potentially huge implications, EMI v. Comerica (past coverage): Comerica bank must reimburse a Sterling Heights sheet metal company $561,000 it lost in an Internet phishing attack, a federal judge has ruled in what may be the first such case nationally to be tried to a…
Spartanburg hospital, police keeping quiet on details of stolen laptop investigation
Stephen Largen provides an update on a breach mentioned previously on this blog: Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System and the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office are keeping many of the details of an ongoing investigation into a stolen laptop computer secret from the public. The laptop was reported stolen from an SRHS employee’s vehicle in late March…