Virginia DHP Gets Their Data Held Hostage

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

The Virginia Department of Health Professionals supposedly had 8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087 prescriptions stolen from their database. The thief is holding the information ransom for $10 million. This kind of extortion is not a new concept, just last October Express Scripts had their information stolen ...

Express Scripts Extortion Continues

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

     I wrote a story on November 9th about Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy processors, is being extorted by identity thieves. They received a letter in October from the thieves saying that they were going to release the information of millions if they were not paid. Express Scripts ...

Extortion in the Health Care System

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

One of the largest pharmacy prescription processors announced Thursday that it’s being threatened by extortionist and if they don’t meet their payment demands the extortionist are going to release the information of millions of Americans.