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Northwestern Memorial employee charged with theft of patients' identities
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:38:13 -0500 (CDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-northwestern-memorial-employee-charged-with-theft-of-patients-identities-20120514,0,2986747.story By Naomi Nix Chicago Tribune reporter May 15, 2012 A Northwestern Memorial Hospital employee has been charged with identity theft after she allegedly used the personal information of hospital patients to pay her bills. Shatina Golden, 35, of Matteson is charged with aggravated identity theft and identity theft. She has worked at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for the last four years, according to the state?s attorney?s office. Matteson police began investigating Golden after village officials spotted ?suspicious credit card activity? involving payments for her home water bill, the state?s attorney office. Police said they identified the actual owners of credit cards Golden was using to pay her bills. And they learned from credit companies that all of the cards had been used at a laboratory at Northwestern Memorial. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Supporters: Risk Based Security (http://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/) Risk Based Security equips organizations with security intelligence, risk management services and on-demand security solutions to establish customized risk-based programs to address information security and compliance challenges. Tenable Network Security (http://www.tenable.com/) Tenable Network Security provides a suite of solutions which unify real-time vulnerability, event and compliance monitoring into a single, role-based, interface for administrators, auditors and risk managers to evaluate, communicate and report needed information for effective decision making and systems management.
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