Adrienne Denise Stovall, 30, a former employee of a Montgomery area hospital, has been sentenced to 24 months and 1 day in federal prison for wire fraud and stealing the identities of patients, U.S. Attorney Leura G. Canary announced yesterday. Stovall was also sentenced to serve 4 years of supervised release upon completion of her…
Houston woman who sold children’s SSN sentenced to prison
Carlin Joubert, 55, has been sentenced to a total of 24 months in federal prison for her role in providing Social Security numbers as well as fraudulent drivers’ licenses and Social Security cards to individuals who used them to obtain fraudulent home loans, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. At a hearing this…
Texas man sentenced to prison for ID theft and credit card fraud
Robert C. Flowers, 31, of Katy, Texas, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Nancy Atlas to serve more than five years in the federal penitentiary without parole for aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. Judge Atlas sentenced Flowers to a total of 61 months…
Verizon Business, U.S. Secret Service to Join Forces on 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report
As part of its continuing effort to better understand security breaches and how they can be prevented, Verizon is joining forces with the United States Secret Service on this year’s Data Breach Investigations Report. The 2010 DBIR, slated to be issued this summer, will feature aggregated findings from Verizon’s own caseload as well as hundreds…
Pointer: ABC investigation on paper records disposal in Florida
ABC has had a two-part investigation on businesses and medical offices in Florida that are just dumping records with sensitive financial and health information. It seems that although there are applicable federal laws, Florida has no state law requiring proper disposal of paper records. The series names a few of the local businesses and the…
INVESTIGATION: Medical records discovered in local dumpsters. What's being done about it?
Alan Cohn reports: An ABC Action News investigation has uncovered local businesses who are carelessly discarding your sensitive personal information. In our second installment of this Taking Action investigation, we’ve uncovered examples of private medical records thrown away unshredded. Among the documents we discovered were blood tests that showed one Tampa woman has Chronic Kidney…