Medical Records For Sale in Underground Stolen From Texas Life Insurance Firm
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity found medical and financial records from American Income Life, a Waco, Texas insurer, being sold on the Tor-only Evolution Market by a seller named ImperialRussia for as little as $6.40 per record in bulk, with the seller's first listing dated June 15, 2014. Parent company Torchmark said the FBI and Secret Service were assisting an investigation and that consumer notifications were expected to begin that week.
What you should know: Each record carried a name, medical history, driver's license and Social Security number, and bank account and routing numbers, and one Washington state victim reported thieves already trying to open two credit cards in her name; the seller claimed he had used the same data to obtain cards worth $2,000 to $10,000.
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