11.09.2004
A health-care worker at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance has been sentenced to serve 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a cancer patient, and subsequently running up credit card bills in his name.
Richard W. Gibson, 42, a technician at the hospital has also been ordered to pay $9,000 in restitution for the credit-card charges as well as costs incurred by the patient, Eric Drew. The prosecution was the first in the US under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Eric Drew was being treated for leukemia at the hospital when Gibson, stole his identity from information he obtained while working as a technician collecting body fluid samples for laboratory testing.
10.18.2004
Ship-in Shredding Service launches e-waste service.
Today DataGuard USA announced a safe and economical online solution for shredding hard drives and other magnetic media. Using its Ship ‘n’ Shred service, customers can now ship their old hard drives or computers, called e-waste, to the closest certified shredder. The computers are then shredded to destroy any data stored on them. Finally, the pieces are properly recycled to meet all local and national environmental regulations.
08.04.2004
DataGuard USA launches Shop 'n' Shred. If identity theft were the domain of the Center for Disease Control, the CDC would undoubtedly declare ID theft a national epidemic, considering the 27.3 million victims and $100 billion in losses in just the last five years. Responding to this financial plague, DataGuard USA LLC is launching Shop ‘n’ Shred—a one-of-a kind retail drop-off shredding service targeting about 90 million households, and small and home-based businesses, the favored prey of identity criminals.
04.06.2004
DataGuard USA launches Ship 'n' Shred.
DataGuard USA, LLC is responding to this increasing need for shredding by homes and small businesses by introducing Ship ‘n’ Shred, a one-of-a kind document destruction service allowing businesses and individuals to package confidential information, ship it and destroy it securely.