Asher Moses reports: One in 10 Australian internet users have lost money to online identify fraud over the past year with losses totalling $1.286 billion, according to the VeriSign Online Fraud Barometer figures released today. The findings represent a significant increase on the figures reported in June by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which surveyed…
NC: Lawyer: Records dump a mix-up
Amanda Chan reports: Boxes of patient records from a Charlotte psychologist’s practice were left at a county recycling facility last week because the psychologist’s sons mistakenly took the wrong boxes to be recycled, his attorney said Thursday. Sean Timmons, who represents Carolina Center for Development and Rehabilitation and its owner Ervin Batchelor, said that because…
Lawsuit filed over UMC patient records leak
Steve Green reports: The fallout continued Friday over the Sun’s disclosure in November that confidential patient information was being leaked from University Medical Center. A lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed in District Court in Clark County against UMC and the man indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the patient privacy scandal….
Almost Five Years in Prison for Pharmacy Owner Slash Identity Thief
Lucian Constantin reports: A pharmacy owner from Maryland was sentenced to 57 months in prison for misusing her customers’ personal information and selling mislabeled meds. The identity thief filed fake reimbursement claims for inexistent prescription refills in the name of other patients. According to authorities, Pamela Arrey, 49, owned two pharmacies in Baltimore, operating under…
IN: Card breach linked to national company
Kristin Maiorano reports: A local security breach with credit and debit cards has been linked to a national company. Lafayette Police detective B.T. Brown said the security issue affected the Camilles Sidewalk Cafe restaurants in the area. But Brown said the breach was strictly through Camilles’ parent company, Beautiful Brands International. “They [local Camilles franchises]…
Hard drive containing personal information on AMR retirees, employees stolen
Terry Maxon reports: AMR Corp. warned approximately 79,000 retirees, former and current employees Friday that someone stole a hard drive that contained personal information about them and their beneficiaries. “The data, which had been kept by AMR’s pension department, spans a time period from 1960 through 1995, and consists of images of historical microfilm files…