State residents warned about health care data breach
LANSING (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Michigan residents potentially affected by a health care data breach are being urged to take extra precautions about their personal information.
State Attorney General Dana Nessel and Department of Insurance and Financial Services Director Anita Fox issued a warning Monday about the breach involving Detroit-based Wolverine Solutions Group.
Information of more than 600,000 in Michigan may have been affected, including customers of Blue Cross Blue Shield, Health Alliance Plan, McLaren Health Care, Three Rivers Health and North Ottawa Community Health System.
The company says compromised information could include names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, insurance contract information and numbers, phone numbers and medical information.
Report: State Police facial image database grows
LANSING (AP) — A newspaper reports the Michigan State Police’s Statewide Network of Agency Photos has grown to nearly 50 million facial images.
The Detroit Free Press reports the Secretary of State’s Office has been giving state police its digital photos since 1998 and state police started using facial recognition technology in 2001. Those include ones taken for driver’s licenses or ID cards.
The newspaper reports the database also can include social media images if police obtained them as part of a criminal investigation.
State police spokeswoman Shanon Banner said in an email all of the agency’s facial examiners are trained by the FBI and any matches between suspect photos and database photos “only provide ‘investigative leads’ back to the investigating agencies.” She says the photos “are never considered to be positive identification.”
In deceit proposal: Feds say man wed stranger to stay in U.S.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Prosecutors say a couple was panhandling along a North Carolina road when a foreigner pulled over with a proposal for the woman: Marry him so he could stay in the country, and they’d receive $12,000 along with payments for a house and car.
Citing court records, The News & Observer reports that 31-year-old Melissa Anne Godshall accepted the offer from 44-year-old Levan Lomtatidze, a native of the country of Georgia.
Her boyfriend, 46-year-old Robert Kennerly, served as a witness during the marriage ceremony.
Authorities say all three are now indicted on charges involving marriage fraud.
Police: Puppy stabbed during break-in ‘getting lots of love’
MIDDLETON, N.H. (AP) — Police in say a four-month-old puppy who was stabbed during a break-in at a home has had surgery and is recovering.
WMUR-TV reports police said no one was home during the burglary in Middleton. When the residents came home, they found the black Lab named Jax with stab wounds to his chest and abdomen.
Police said Jax was taken to an emergency veterinarian in Portsmouth.
Andrea Dube, a supervisor at the Port City Veterinary Referral Hospital, says Jax is “in good spirits, taking it day by day, is in very stable condition and getting lots of love.”
Police are investigating.
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