The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice have issued a report: “Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program – Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2009.” The report includes a few cases where the defendants were charged with identity theft among other charges: In Florida, the owner and operator of a…
GA officials: Hacking was outside eatery
Rodney Manly reports: A security breach that has compromised the credit and debit cards of recent customers at the Mellow Mushroom in Warner Robins is believed to have occurred outside the restaurant, police and the restaurant’s lawyer said Friday. “The breach happened either with the computing end of it or at the payment processing center….
Arlington Security Guard, Who Hacked into Hospital’s Computer System, Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges
Robert Wilonsky of the Dallas Observer reports that the Carrell Memorial Clinic hacker who stupidly posted videos of himself committing his crimes on You Tube has pleaded guilty. Although the case was previously covered on DataBreaches.net, Wilonsky’s blog entry provides a number of background links for those who want more of the earlier coverage, as…
GA: Health worker charged with ID theft
A former employee at an Albany doctor’s office is in jail charged with identity fraud. 44-year-old Sylvia Green, who worked at Albany OB-GYN, is charged with financial identity fraud. Investigators say Green, who worked as a phone nurse, refilling patients’ prescriptions, stole the identity of a patient and used her information to try to take…
Court rejects Qchex’s appeal
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed a lower court ruling against Qchex. The Federal Trade Commission had brought the action against Qchex, claiming that Qchex violated federal law by operating an online check creation and delivery service with inadequate safeguards in place to prevent fraud. The lower court’s decision, issued in February 2009,…
Laptop stolen from VA contractor contains veterans' personal data
I posted this yesterday to DataBreaches.net, but am posting it here, too, because even though the coverage so far doesn’t specifically mention that veterans’ health data were involved, it is a distinct possibility. Also, in updates to this story, it seems that the April 22 laptop theft affected 616 veterans, not 644 as originally reported:…