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10 Greater Cleveland residents charged with bank fraud, identity theft

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Dissent

Donna J. Miller reports: Ten people from Greater Cleveland are accused of stealing a total of $207,000 from six banks in a scheme that involved an assistant bank manager and a salesman who supplied local businesses with cash registers and credit card machines. They were charged Friday with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft based…

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GA: Wilkinson County Schools Investigate Online Security Breach, Dismiss School Early After Potential Threats

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Dissent

Jasmine Williams of WMGT reports that an online security breach was the beginning of a sequence of events that led Wilkinson County officials in Georgia to dismiss schools early on Friday: According to authorities, a Wilkinson County student accessed the user names and passwords to PowerTeacher. PowerTeacher is a classroom management system used to store…

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Oops: Ulster Bank apologizes after losing some customers’ records

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Dissent

BreakingNews.ie reports that Ulster Bank has apologized to customers after an employee inadvertently dropped a folder containing customer info outside one of its offices but didn’t notice it. The folder was eventually returned to them.

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University of Rhode Island notifies faculty and students after SSN discovered exposed on the Internet

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Dissent

WPRI in Rhode Island reports that University of Rhode Island is notifying current and former faculty members as well as some students that their data were on a publicly shared College of Business Administration server that was accessed and viewed by unauthorized individuals. A statement posted on URI’s web site indicates that 1,000 faculty members were being…

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Private Swiss bank Julius Baer confirms another insider data theft

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Dissent

Catherine Bosley reports that Swiss private bank Julius Baer has suffered another insider breach. If the bank’s name sounds familiar, it’s because another former employee claimed to have given WikiLeaks details of clients who were using the private bank to avoid paying taxes. In this case: According to the SonntagsZeitung, the stolen data on clients…

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Data Breach at New York Utility Prompts Enforcement Action and Industry-Wide Data Security Review

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Dissent

Boris Segalis and Nihar Shah provide some follow-up to a data security breach at New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Gas and Electric that was disclosed in January. As I noted in July, regulators criticized NYSEG over the breach that had affected 1.8 million. Segalis and Shah write: The Commission subsequently issued an “Order Directing…

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