by admin | Feb 5, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Anthem, Inc, the country’s second largest health insurance company has announced that it has suffered a massive data breach in which personal information on up to 80 million of its customers and staff were stolen including personal information of its President...
by admin | Oct 28, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Florida medical assistant La Toya Yvette Tillman has been convicted of aggravated identity theft and sentenced to three years in prison. Through her work at Gastroenterology Consultants she was able to access the database for the entire Memorial Healthcare System,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 18, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In a filing yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Community Health Systems, Inc. a major hospital group company with 206 hospitals in 29 states disclosed that it had suffered a major data breach in which the names, addresses, birth dates, Telephone...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 26, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently, respiratory therapist Betty Cole of Miami pleaded guilty to stealing the names and Social Security numbers of more than 800 patients of South Miami Hospital and selling the information to criminals who used the information to file phony income tax returns...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 15, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In my book “50 Ways to Protect Your Identity in a Digital Age” and in a number of Scamicide “scams of the day” I have warned you about the dangers of medical identity theft which was again in the news recently with the indictment of an Ohio man...