October 19, 2009 – 9:59 am
The Virginia state government has suffered another major data breach, their second this year. The most recent occurred September 21 when an unencrypted flash drive containing the names, Social Security numbers and employment and demographic information of 103,000 people was lost.
Those affected either took an adult education class between April 2007 and January 2009, or [...]
October 13, 2009 – 9:24 am
The first lesson we all learn about protecting ourselves online is how to avoid phishing emails. They often claim to be from a bank, credit card issuer or even the IRS and ask the recipients to confirm their account numbers, login information or personally identifying information. Their intent, of course, is to trick people into [...]
October 8, 2009 – 12:29 pm
As many as 850,000 physicians may be affected by theft of a BlueCross BlueShield employee’s laptop. Physicians’ names addresses, federal tax ID numbers and national provider numbers were contained in an unencrypted file on the laptop.
The data breach presents the possibility of massive medical insurance fraud, but the 187,000 doctors who used their Social Security [...]
October 2, 2009 – 10:05 am
Express Scripts’ hackers have stolen the personal information of roughly 700,000 members of the pharmacy benefits management company. It’s the first time the company has placed a number on the total extent of the information held by the hackers, and the latest installment in an ongoing drama.
The tumult began last fall when Express Scripts [...]
September 24, 2009 – 11:53 am
One of two men from Armenia was sentenced to time served and deportation for his part in an ID theft and card-skimming scheme that cost its victims’ more than $570,000.
Artur Grigoryan pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Grigoryan and his accomplice Artur Harutyunyan, also from [...]
September 16, 2009 – 8:15 am
Charles H. Belim, head of the “Wig Lady” scam ring, was sentenced yesterday to more than nine years in prison for his part in a Washington, D.C. area identity theft scheme that claimed more than 50 victims.
Belim, 58, his wife, Jacqueline Belim, and other co-conspirators stole purses and wallets containing credit cards, photo ID and [...]
August 13, 2009 – 11:03 am
I’ve written before about female ID thieves who stole identities to pay for breast augmentations, liposuctions and nose jobs, and I’ve always privately cringed to think women are so vain or feel so pressured to conform to society’s standards of beauty that they’d resort to ID theft.
Now, thanks to Jose Amid Juarbe, of Philadelphia, I [...]
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August 7, 2009 – 10:30 am
A Wachovia Bank employee and two co-conspirators have been indicted for stealing customers’ account information. Charges include aggravated identity theft and bank fraud conspiracy.
Yolanda Denise Scott, 31, worked in Wachovia Bank’s exceptions department and, in 2007, allegedly fed stolen account numbers, signature cards, routing numbers and personally identifying information to Schnikia Scruggs, 37. Scruggs, in [...]
I’m really not a sicko. It’s just that I read and write so much about identity theft, I’ve gotten a little jaded. But once in a while, the scum rises to the top and a truly bizarre story captures my attention.
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