Jenny Fogle reports: With six data breaches in the past year, Ohio State officials are urging students and faculty to help keep private information safe.”Ohio State has been tracking [breaches] for the past three years,” said Charles Morrow-Jones, director of IT Security. “We’ve been averaging about 10 per year and virtually all of them involve…
Author: Dissent
(Update) Wheeling police probe thefts from Aldi ATMs
The Chicago Tribune reports: As the Aldi grocery chain removes suspect ATM terminals from some of its stores, police in Wheeling said they’re still trying to unravel the source of unauthorized withdrawals that add up to more than $130,000 taken from customers at the Wheeling Aldi store alone. […] More than 200 debit card owners,…
TX: $60 for Appliances, Furniture, Social Security Numbers, and Medical Records
Omar Villafranca reports that a winning $60 storage unit auction bid yielded personal and medical information on hundreds of people: But the storage unit also had boxes of sensitive information, including copies of drivers licenses and Social Security cards, credit union reports and financial reports. The letters were addressed to a closed-down nursing facility. The…
$60 for Appliances, Furniture, Social Security Numbers, and Medical Records
Omar Villafranca reports that a winning $60 storage unit auction bid yielded personal and medical information on hundreds of people: But the storage unit also had boxes of sensitive information, including copies of drivers licenses and Social Security cards, credit union reports and financial reports. The letters were addressed to a closed-down nursing facility. The…
Wire-transfer fraud poses a growing problem
Doreen Hemlock filed this report last week: Identity theft takes many forms, but Lenny Vigliotti never imagined it would show up as somebody wiring $12,000 from his South Florida saving account through multiple banks to end up in the Ukraine. Nearly three months after he noticed the money missing, he’s yet to recoup the cash….
Consumers Are Ditching The $2.4 Billion ID Theft Protection Market
Andy Greenberg writes: As purse strings have tightened over the last couple of years, most consumers no longer think spending $200 a year on identity theft protection services makes sense. And they’re probably right. A study out Tuesday from identity-theft-focused Javelin Research shows that only about 25% of consumers now subscribe to an identity theft…