Jeff Vanderford If you are, or have ever been, a patient at the Family Care Center physical therapy clinic, call your bank. Right away. That’s the advice of owner Jim Christensen, after discovering that more than 8,000 of his patients’ names had been stolen during a burglary last weekend. The list includes patient accounts from…
Fraudulent Telephone Calls Allowing Fraudsters Access to Consumer Financial and Brokerage Accounts
The FBI Newark Division released a warning to consumers concerning a new scheme using telecommunications denial-of-service (TDoS) attacks. The FBI determined fraudsters compromised victim accounts and contacted financial institutions to change the victim profile information (i.e. email addresses, telephone numbers and bank account numbers). The TDoS attacks used automated dialing programs and multiple accounts to…
Rogue tax workers snooped on ex-spouses, family members
Dean Beeby of the Canadian Press reports: OTTAWA—Dozens of workers at Canada’s tax agency have been caught snooping on their ex-spouses, mothers-in-law, creditors and others by reading confidential tax files. Internal reports at the Canada Revenue Agency show that rogue employees are improperly reviewing the private financial affairs of taxpayers without their knowledge. And some…
St. Francis Federal Credit Union accounts may have been compromised
Saint Francis Federal Credit Union officials said that 8,400 account holders’ information may be at risk after the loss of a backup tape that contained customer information. Officials said the tape may have been destroyed during a “trash removal process,” but that they have been unable to confirm this. Read more on Tulsa World.
X-ray tech accused of voyeurism was storing Willard Mercy medical records
Cary Ashby reports: A Willard rental unit company found various Mercy Willard Hospital records being stored by a former ultrasound technician accused of voyeurism and child pornography at a Tiffin facility. However, Mercy CEO and President Lynn Detterman said there was nothing considered suspicious, pornographic or of a criminal nature in the storage unit once…
How Democrats Killed Medical Privacy in Colorado
This commentary by Mike Krause was written in May, but I just came across it and thought it important enough to post, even late: ….. Take health care in Colorado. Last year, State Rep John Kefalas sponsored legislation that would have laid “the groundwork” for government-controlled health care, a.k.a. single-payer, to all Coloradans by 2011….