Elizabeth Dinan reports: A police department laptop computer containing “a fair amount of records” was stolen from a marked cruiser and an on-board camera was damaged while the cruiser was left at an auto dealership for service, said Chief Jon Tretter. The theft from and damage to the “brand new” cruiser occurred last week when…
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Identity fraud case has broader scope than first thought
Andrea Simmons reports on a case mentioned on this blog last month. … A simple investigation into a couple stolen checks has evolved into what Duluth authorities say is a wide-ranging tax fraud case involving Ford, three separate identity theft rings with half a dozen or more conspirators and upwards of 5,800 victims. […] After…
LastPass Security Notification
If you use LastPass, you’ll need to change your master password. According to the site’s blog: We noticed an issue yesterday and wanted to alert you to it. As a precaution, we’re also forcing you to change your master password. We take a close look at our logs and try to explain every anomaly we…
TX: Suit wants $3.5 billion for state computer glitch
A second class-action lawsuit has been filed in a Houston federal court against Comptroller Susan Combs on behalf of 3.5 million Texans whose personal information was exposed to public access on a government computer server for more than a year. “We are seeking the $1,000 statutory penalty for each of these individuals whose privacy was…
GA: Chiropractor Charged With Identity Fraud
According to the Paulding County Sheriff’s office, Dr. Christopher Lockerman, of Lockerman Family Chiropractic, in Hiram was arrested Wednesday and charged with 8 counts of financial identity fraud and one count of theft by deception in a case that involves over $264,000.00 of identity theft. Detectives said they were first made aware of this case…
Patients at Charleston Area Medical Center sue following data breach
Joseph Goedert reports: Five of about 3,655 patients whose protected health information at Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia was breached last September have filed a lawsuit seeking class action status for all affected patients. The suit, Tabata v. Charleston Area Medical Center, was filed in Circuit Court in Kanawha County. The Charleston law…