Cancer Patient Catches ID Thief
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A technician at a cancer center has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a gravely ill patient, who spent months trying to clear his name while the disease ravaged his body.
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A woman who gave what she said were flu shots to more than two dozen people, then fled when asked for information about her credentials, was arrested Friday, police said.
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A woman in Minnesota, dressed in scrubs and a lab coat, has been arrested for illegally selling flu shots. Michelle Lynn Torgerson was arrested Friday on suspicion of theft and drug possession.
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TAMPA, Fla., June 19  /PRNewswire/ -- Computers may have sensitive data that identity thieves would love to get their hands on. Magnets, degaussers, and other x-ray or magnetic techniques do not work, even the large bulk eraser magnets are not effective.
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A notebook PC containing the personal information of thousands of blood donors was stolen from a blood bank in California last Friday, exposing those donors to the possibility of identify theft.
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Former Boeing employees, some retirees could be at risk of ID theft; no evidence information has been compromised.
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A physician says this photograph has drawn FBI inquiries.
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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A man charged in connection with identity theft had his social security number exposed on the court's digital records system.
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Calling the crime one of the &quot;most deplorable I&#39;ve witnessed in 15 years on the bench,&quot; US District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez sentenced a local health-care worker yesterday to 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a cancer patient and running
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EDMONTON - Auditor General Fred Dunn fears health-care fraud and identity theft are occurring because the Alberta government has failed to properly keep track of more than two million duplicate or replacement health-care cards.
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Leaving personal information on cell phones and computers before you sell, donate or recycle them can expose you to identity thieves. Here's how to protect yourself.
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SAN FRANCISCO Thousands of Wells Fargo and Company mortgage and student-loan customers may be at risk for identity theft after four computers were stolen last month from a vendor that prints loan statements.
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An intruder had access to customer records, Social Security numbers, and private e-mail for at least a year ending last October. Trophies included celebrity cell phone snapshots, and a trove of restricted Secret Service documents stored on an agent's Sidekick.
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For more than a year, an intruder has been accessing private information on students and staff, among others, the university says.
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By Leslie Griffy and Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 31--A former San Jose medical manager has pleaded guilty to stealing a computer and a CD that contained personal medical information of about 200,000 patients, a state Department of Justice spokeswoman said today.
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Authorities are trying to determine how a hacker gained access to a University of California computer that contained personal information for more than 1 million people, many of them recipients of an assistance program for the elderly.