Collaborate Disseminate
Oct.7 – ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment yesterday charging three individuals with money laundering and aggravated identity theft as part of a business email compromise (BEC) scheme. According to allegation… Continue reading Three Men Charged with Laundering Proceeds of a Business Email Compromise Scheme
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Fredrick Brown, a former U.S. Army contractor, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison after admitting to his role in a conspiracy that targeted thousands of U.S. service members and veterans and caused millions of dollars in… Continue reading Transnational fraud ring stole millions from Army members, veterans
Why doesn’t Ohio notify victims of unemployment fraud or allow residents to check if they’ve been scammed? It’s a reasonable question, and I doubt you’ll like the state’s answer. Continue reading Why doesn’t Ohio notify victims of unemployment fraud or allow residents to check if they’ve been scammed?
12News reports: A Tempe nurse assistant is accused of stealing the identities of her patients to lease apartments and purchase expensive vehicles. Sierra Johnson, 24, is facing several criminal charges after investigators connected her to several cases… Continue reading Tempe nurse assistant stole patient identities to open bank accounts, lease apartments, police say
Anne Bradley-Smith reports: Airport store operator, Paradies Shops LLC, which runs more than 850 retail and 170 restaurant locations in more than 100 airports across the United States, was negligent with employee data and caused huge damages to more th… Continue reading Airport Store Operator Negligence Caused Huge Damages in 2020 Hack, Class Action Lawsuit Alleges
Kay Jones, Steve Almasy, and Rebekah Riess report: Three people have been arrested in South Florida and accused of identity theft of victims of the Surfside condo collapse, a top prosecutor said Wednesday. There were seven victims in this case, five of… Continue reading Three people arrested in connection with identity theft of Surfside condo victims
Bamidele Muraina, a Nigerian national who hacked into tax preparation firms and filed fraudulent unemployment benefit claims and tax returns using stolen personally identifiable information, and Gabriel Kalembo, a previously convicted fraudster who lau… Continue reading Nigerian hacker and a repeat offender sentenced to federal prison for unemployment fraud and tax fraud scheme
There was a follow-up last week to a case DataBreaches.net has reported on several times, beginning in December, 2020 when Demetrius Cervantes, 46, of McKinney, and Amanda Lowry, 40, of Sherman, Texas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obtain protected he… Continue reading Follow-up: Woman Who Stole and Sold Protected Health Information Sentenced to 2 ½ Years in Prison
Helen Wegner reports: A hospital employee is accused of sharing patient identities with scammers who then fraudulently tried to obtain their COVID-19 unemployment benefits, according to court documents unsealed this week. Matthew Lombardo worked at the… Continue reading Hospital worker stole identities of dying California patients in COVID scam, feds say
HIPAA Journal reports that the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has agreed to a $2.65 million settlement to resolve a data breach lawsuit filed by employees affected by a February 2014 data breach that resulted in many employees becoming … Continue reading UPMC Settles 2014 Data Breach Litigation for $2.65 Million