A report from Mobiledia:The theft of about 780,000 online medical records by unknown hackers from state computers in Utah is sounding alarm bells about the protections of sensitive data.
Last month, hackers stole the data of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid recipients and participants from Utah’s Children’s Health Insurance Program, including the Social Security numbers of about 280,000 of them. Child records are specifically valuable to criminals because their lack [...] Continue Reading…
A report from Patch.com:
A variety of ID and credit theft charges have been lodged agains a Brooklyn, NY man following an investigation by Greenwich Police.
Raphael W. Brereton, 32, was arrested May 16 while he was in custody of the Kings County Court in Brooklyn, according to a Greenwich Police report. Brereton was charged with fourth-degree larceny, credit card theft, illegal use of a credit card, unlawful reproduction of a [...] Continue Reading…
A report from Business Insider:
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A report from WOI:
By Alex Schuman
aschuman@myabc5.com
Several people in the Metro recently found out they were victims of identity theft. Police figured out the one thing they all have in common: a restaurant.
Since Saturday, West Des Moines police have gotten 12 reports of identity theft.
Rob Christensen is one of the victims. Part of his job is to help protect information for a local business. That’s why he was particularly surprised when [...] Continue Reading…
A report from Salt Lake Tribune:
A couple of weeks ago, I returned home from vacation to learn my personal health information had been hacked. So I signed up for the free credit monitoring that lasts a year.
On Monday, not having heard about my Social Security number, I called the state’s data breach hotline and was told yes, your number is out in the wind.
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So, on the state’s advice, on [...] Continue Reading…
A report from Washington Post:
NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey airport security supervisor accused of using a murdered man’s identity to hide his illegal immigrant status apparently bought the man’s birth certificate and Social Security number from an intermediary before his death, police said Wednesday.
Police don’t consider Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole a suspect in the unsolved murder of Jerry Thomas, who was shot outside a Queens, N.Y., YMCA in 1992. [...] Continue Reading…
A report from Bloomberg:
May 15 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, Sheila Bair, former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Richard Bove, an analyst at Rochdale Securities, offer their views on JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s $ 2 billion trading loss and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon. This report also contains comments from U.S. Republican Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and Rob Portman of Ohio; [...] Continue Reading…
A report from Washington Post:
NEWARK, N.J. — A Newark Liberty Airport security supervisor pleaded not guilty to identity theft Tuesday as new details emerged about his alleged 20-year odyssey of deception, including that he may have assumed the identity of a New York man weeks before the man was murdered.
Through his court-appointed attorney, Nigerian Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole pleaded not guilty to one count of identity theft, a second-degree offense [...] Continue Reading…
A report from Dark Reading:FARMINGTON, Conn., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Beazley, a leading insurer of data privacy and network security risks, has launched a new version of its market leading Beazley Breach Response (BBR) solution, tailored to meets the needs – and budgets – of smaller firms with revenues of less than $ 10 million.
The solution, known as BBR Select, offers the same combination of forensic, legal, [...] Continue Reading…
A report from Chicago Tribune:A Northwestern Memorial Hospital employee has been charged with identity theft after she allegedly used the personal information of hospital patients to pay her bills, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office announced Monday.
Shatina Golden, 35, of Matteson was charged with aggravated identity theft and identity theft, after working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for the last four years, according to the state’s attorney’s office.
Matteson police began [...] Continue Reading…
