Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Worker arrested in Baptist privacy breach
Worker arrested in Baptist privacy breach
BY JOHN DORSCHNER
Thousands of patients at Baptist Hospital appear to have had their credit card information stolen by an employee, Adrian Green, who was arrested late last week.
Green was caught after using Baptist telephone extensions to give various names in purchasing $3,000 worth of fancy watches, according to an affidavit filed by U.S. Secret Service Agent Shannon Jayroe.
The purchases were made by phone to Bacario.com, a Brooklyn, N.Y., watch merchant. The merchant became suspicious because orders using different persons' names were coming from the same phone number, as identified by the company's caller ID service.
The Secret Service, which handles credit card fraud, was alerted, and agents found that Green kept calling the merchant from different extensions at the hospital, Jayroe stated.
Green's job, which he had held for almost two years, was registering patients, giving him access to all their personal information, including Social Security and credit card numbers.
While agents monitored his actions at Baptist, Green was discovered accessing a patient's name and credit card information at 3:45 p.m. on March 19 and then placing an order with the merchant seven minutes later, the affidavit said.
Agents later went to Green's house in Homestead, where they saw a 46-inch flat-screen Samsung TV and a Sony Blue Ray Disc Player, according to the affidavit, which stated that Green admitted the items were bought with stolen card numbers after being read his Miranda rights.
Baptist has fired Green, the hospital said in a news release. The institution didn't know ``the extent of the problem, but it appears to involve a single employee who, we believe, accessed the financial records of several thousand patients at Baptist Hospital. We expect to know more in the next few days.''
The hospital said it was ''working diligently'' to uncover what happened and would notify those affected as soon as they could be identified.
''We deeply regret this has happened. It has never happened in the nearly 50-year history of this faith-based organization,'' the release said.
Theft of identities and credit card information has been rampant recently. Last week, The Miami Herald reported six Miami residents were arrested as part of a group that is alleged to have used credit card information from T.J. Maxx.
The company admitted earlier this week that a hacker or hackers had stolen information from at least 45 million credit card transactions at Marshalls and T.J. Maxx stores.
Miami Herald news partner CBS4 contributed to this report.
BY JOHN DORSCHNER
Thousands of patients at Baptist Hospital appear to have had their credit card information stolen by an employee, Adrian Green, who was arrested late last week.
Green was caught after using Baptist telephone extensions to give various names in purchasing $3,000 worth of fancy watches, according to an affidavit filed by U.S. Secret Service Agent Shannon Jayroe.
The purchases were made by phone to Bacario.com, a Brooklyn, N.Y., watch merchant. The merchant became suspicious because orders using different persons' names were coming from the same phone number, as identified by the company's caller ID service.
The Secret Service, which handles credit card fraud, was alerted, and agents found that Green kept calling the merchant from different extensions at the hospital, Jayroe stated.
Green's job, which he had held for almost two years, was registering patients, giving him access to all their personal information, including Social Security and credit card numbers.
While agents monitored his actions at Baptist, Green was discovered accessing a patient's name and credit card information at 3:45 p.m. on March 19 and then placing an order with the merchant seven minutes later, the affidavit said.
Agents later went to Green's house in Homestead, where they saw a 46-inch flat-screen Samsung TV and a Sony Blue Ray Disc Player, according to the affidavit, which stated that Green admitted the items were bought with stolen card numbers after being read his Miranda rights.
Baptist has fired Green, the hospital said in a news release. The institution didn't know ``the extent of the problem, but it appears to involve a single employee who, we believe, accessed the financial records of several thousand patients at Baptist Hospital. We expect to know more in the next few days.''
The hospital said it was ''working diligently'' to uncover what happened and would notify those affected as soon as they could be identified.
''We deeply regret this has happened. It has never happened in the nearly 50-year history of this faith-based organization,'' the release said.
Theft of identities and credit card information has been rampant recently. Last week, The Miami Herald reported six Miami residents were arrested as part of a group that is alleged to have used credit card information from T.J. Maxx.
The company admitted earlier this week that a hacker or hackers had stolen information from at least 45 million credit card transactions at Marshalls and T.J. Maxx stores.
Miami Herald news partner CBS4 contributed to this report.
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