Michelle Knoll reports: Prosecutors have charged eleven people in an elaborate, counterfeit credit card scheme. Eight of them are in custody. Federal investigators are still looking for the other three defendants. According to the criminal complaint, between July 2008 and April 2009 the group is accused of purchasing the personal information of Capitol One Bank…
Socials, med records dumped on street
Hundreds of students’ confidential records — including psychiatric exams and Social Security numbers — were dumped on the sidewalk in front of their former Manhattan high school yesterday. Infuriated parents and kids from the School for the Physical City rushed to the East 25th Street site after learning of the horrific privacy bungle, saying they…
Socials, med records dumped on street
Beth Stebner and Kate Sheehy report: Hundreds of students’ confidential records — including psychiatric exams and Social Security numbers — were dumped on the sidewalk in front of their former Manhattan high school yesterday. Infuriated parents and kids from the School for the Physical City rushed to the East 25th Street site after learning of…
UK: Social services' apology after patient details faxed in error
The social services department at Bath and North East Somerset Council has been forced to apologise for a series of blunders which left a number of vulnerable people open to being targeted by thieves and conmen. The apology comes after the Somerset Guardian was handed sheets of confidential information about people under the care of…
NJ woman charged with illegally accessing medical records
Shore News Today in New Jersey reports: An Absecon woman was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 2 for allegedly accessing someone’s medical records on the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center computer network, according to Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel. Mildred Zamot, 30, accessed the records May 14 while she was working at Atlantic Gastroenterology Associates in Egg Harbor…
UK: Secret files on care kids found in Wolverhampton garden shed
Paul Cole reports: Sensitive information on vulnerable children in social services’ care was found in a Midland garden shed by a builder, it emerged last night. The confidential information is believed to have included private and personal case files of hundreds of children who were held in care in the Black Country. Sensitive files had…