ID Experts released this substitute notice in media on behalf of their client: The office of Paul C. Brown, M.D., P.S., was burglarized the weekend of October 14, 2011. The thieves broke into the office and stole various pieces of office equipment including CDs containing patient information data from 1993 – 2004. Upon discovery of…
Month: December 2011
TX: Ex-city workers sentenced for ID thefts
There’s a follow-up to a breach reported previously on this blog. Guillermo Contreras reports: A San Antonio couple who worked for the city was sentenced Thursday for using stolen Social Security information to buy a boat, jewelry and several vehicles, including two motorcycles, two Cadillacs and a $43,000 Corvette. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia gave Mary Mercy Lopez, 49,…
Ex-Credit Suisse worker guilty of data theft
And so a long-running data theft case ends. The Local (Switzerland) reports: The Swiss Federal Criminal Court sentenced on Thursday a former employee of Credit Suisse to a two-year suspended sentence for breaching bank secrecy laws and money laundering. The former bank worker was also fined 3,500 francs ($3,727) after he confessed to having stolen…
International Checkout notifies customers after hack of database containing credit card numbers
International Checkout, Inc. recently notified customers after a security breach involving a database containing credit card numbers. The breach was discovered in mid-September, although the firm does not indicate how it first became aware of the problem. Subsequent investigation, completed on October 31, determined that the breach had occurred on August 23. Those affected were…
CA: Help-desk employee who helped himself to co-worker’s information, sentenced to prison
United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Khris St. Ives Dulay Lu was sentenced in federal court in San Diego by United States District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez to serve 48 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, based upon his conviction for credit card fraud, in violation of…
Ca: RBC client sees others’ private data online
An alert reader from north of the border sends in this one. Ellen Roseman reports: Ava Wong had her identity stolen in 2008. She spent the next year trying to get her financial life in order again. So, she was upset to log into her RBC banking account last month and find someone else’s confidential…