The justices of the Massachusetts’ highest court have approved guidelines designed to protect against identity theft by having people who file court documents omit personal information. The nonbinding guidelines call for only the last four digits of Social Security numbers, …
Two Vietnam veterans are not entitled to damages from a 2007 Department of Veterans Affairs computer security breach in Birmingham, Ala., a federal appeals court panel in Georgia has ruled. Jim Henry Perkins and Jessie Frank Qualls had to prove …
Those who track insurance criminals for a living say that as the economy has worsened, insurance fraud has been on the rise– and they are on the alert for any jump in fraud by property/casualty agents and brokers. These days …
A former Los Angeles hospital employee has admitted stealing information about patients to fraudulently bill insurance companies. James Allen Wilson, who worked in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s billing department, pleaded guilty to identity theft, insurance fraud, grand theft and not paying …
Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott has warned that Schlumberger Employees Credit Union members should be aware of a “smishing” scam that has been uncovered in the Houston area. Members of the Sugar Land-based credit union have complained to the Office …
Four owners and managers of an Orange County, Calif., demolition company have been charged with 144 felony counts in what prosecutors are calling a multimillion-dollar workers’ compensation fraud case. Orange County prosecutors say the defendants at Democo Inc. claimed they …
University of California, Berkeley, officials said Friday that hackers infiltrated restricted computer databases, putting at risk health and other personal information on 160,000 students, alumni and others. The university said data include Social Security numbers, birth dates, health insurance information …
It’s called “opportunistic fraud.” As the economy continues its struggle to rebound, the number of possible cases of insurance fraud has increased, according to a new report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). The bureau’s quarterly report, which uses …
Israeli authorities extradited Moshe “Sanny” Assoulin of Sherman Oaks, Calif., pursuant to a California warrant for his arrest for insurance fraud, grand theft and identity theft and a federal warrant for possession for sale of MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy. …
A former New York state tax department worker is accused of stealing the identities of taxpayers and running up more than $200,000 in fraudulent charges on their accounts. Prosecutors say the confidential information gathered by Walter Healey included credit card …