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A former seasonal worker at a tech contractor supporting Medicare open enrollment has been sentenced to serve 42 months in prison after pleading guilty to a charge in connection with improperly accessing patient records, some of which were used to open fraudulent credit lines.
Court papers describe how the insider was able to access and copy thousands of individuals’ personal information.
In a statement, the Department of Justice said Colbi Trent Defiore, a Mississippi resident, was sentenced in a Louisiana federal court for accessing and obtaining without authorization the personal identifying information of 8,000 individuals through “bulk searches” he conducted of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthcare.gov database.