A computer hacker was sentenced to 3 years and 1 month in prison yesterday for hacking into brokerage accounts at Charles Schwab and laundering more than $246,000, some of which he sent to co-conspirators in Russia. From September 2006 to December 2007, Aleksey Volynskiy used Trojan horse computer viruses to steal victims’ personal account information…
VIHA files sent to wrong address
Rob Shaw reports: The Vancouver Island Health Authority has admitted it accidentally mailed the confidential health records of 13 clients to the wrong address, and didn’t know the files were missing until people started to complain. The records, which contained mental and physical evaluations of clients, were supposed to go into the inter-office mail system…
Nursing home patient information found in residents' yards
Amber Parcher reports: Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services is looking into how numerous Wheaton nursing home papers containing sensitive patient information have made their way into nearby neighbors’ yards over the past few months. Last month, the county sent a nursing home inspector to investigate complaints from residents in the Wheaton Regional…
Suspects Collect Millions In Tax Return Fraud
Luther Clay, Josephine Cowles and Glen Apling are three U.S. citizens who all died in 1983. Somehow they and over 1,000 other deceased individuals managed to file tax returns in 2006. “It’s a very, very sophisticated scheme,” Arizona’s district U.S. Attorney, Dennis Burk, said at a press conference Thursday morning. Burk’s office began investigating this…
Speedy Tax Refunds, but to Identity Thieves, Suit Says
Andy Newman reports that police suspect an H & R Block employee of misusing customer data to obtain fraudulent refunds. Former customers who have been affected filed a lawsuit against H & R Block this week. Read more in the New York Times.
Nursing home patient information found in residents’ yards
Amber Parcher reports: Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services is looking into how numerous Wheaton nursing home papers containing sensitive patient information have made their way into nearby neighbors’ yards over the past few months. Last month, the county sent a nursing home inspector to investigate complaints from residents in the Wheaton Regional…