The Associated Press reports: A Milton woman working at a Delaware medical office has been arrested for stealing patients’ information and opening credit card accounts. Delaware State Police say 41-year-old Diane Perrin used her position as a medical assistant from February 2008 to March to take 11 patients information and open credit card accounts....
Dan Goodin reports on a case where former employees were allegedly able to continue to access databases, despite the company terminating old passwords: Scott R. Burgess, 45, of Jasper, Indiana, and Walter D. Puckett, 39, of Williamstown, Kentucky, both worked as managers for Indiana-based Stens Corporation until taking jobs with a competing company in...
Jacquettia L. Brown, 29, and Tear Renee Barbary, 25, both residents of Miami-Dade County, were both sentenced this week following their conviction on offenses relating to the theft of patient records from Palmetto General Hospital to further a fraud scheme. U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore sentenced Brown to two years and five...
Laura Italiano reports: As temps from hell go, officials say this one takes the cake — and whatever mother’s maiden names he can get his hands on. Manhattan prosecutors say a 19-year-old Nigerian computer whiz stole the personal financial information of 150 fellow employees during a brief but busy three-month temping stint at Bank...
Sacked employees triple malicious data deletions