NewsChannel5 reports: The Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk confirmed a breach involving personal information. The clerk’s office said Monday that private citizens’ Social Security Numbers were “inappropriately” included on some criminal affidavits attached to public arrest warrants. Read more on NewsChannel5.
Month: August 2018
Convicted of health care fraud, de-licensed physician just steals another doctor’s identity….
In June, I posted an item about how BCBS of Illinois was notifying people after a vendor informed them that law enforcement had alerted them that a vendor’s employee was not a licensed physician but an identity thief. That story did not seem to get a lot of press attention, but subsequent revelations named the physician…
Dozens of Norfolk students’ private health information posted online by school system
Sara Gregory reports: School crisis plans that detail the medical issues of dozens of Norfolk students and teachers were posted online last week for anyone to access. […] Larchmont Elementary School’s plans, for instance, list a student with autism and two students with mobility issues. St. Helena Elementary School lists 27 students who have either…
Former JP Morgan Chase Bank Employee Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Selling Customer Account Information
August 10 – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Peter Persaud, a former personal banker at JP Morgan Chase Bank, was sentenced by United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano to 48 months’ imprisonment for aggravated identity theft in connection with access device fraud. Persaud pleaded guilty to these charges on March 7, 2017….
WI: Adams County data breach exposed personal information of 258,120 people
From the yeah-this-isn’t-good dept. Caitlin Shuda reports: A data breach exposed the names, addresses, personal information and even photographs of more than 250,000 people with information on Adams County computer systems. Officials in a statement on Friday said they do not have evidence that personal data was stolen, but urged those affected by the breach…
MN: Cyberattackers successfully phish numerous Hennepin County workers’ e-mails
Andy Mannix reports: Cyberattackers have infiltrated e-mail accounts for about 20 Hennepin County employees since late June, and may have accessed the private information of people who rely on the county’s services, county officials revealed Thursday. Using e-mails disguised as pay-raise notifications, a sophisticated phishing scam duped the employees into giving up their login information,…