Privacy Digest

Worker arrested in Baptist privacy breach - 03/31/2007 - MiamiHerald.com: "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."