Frank Mand reports on Plymouth County’s efforts to redact Social Security Numbers from publicly available records starting with “Book 1989,” the first book of records in which SSN began to appear in real estate records. The Registry is now up to Book 38,792 and – referencing documents in terms of their digital images – there…
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NY: Westchester Police Arrest Bronx Man For Credit Card Fraud
Westchester County Police along with the U.S. Secret Service have arrested a Bronx man and charged him with stealing credit card information and then using it to buy more than $100,000 worth of consumer electronics. Officials say 31 year old James Davis of Decatur Avenue used a skimming device to steal credit card information while…
UK: Fraudster must pay £30,000
Polly Rippon reports: A conman from Sheffield who masterminded conspiracies to defraud high street bank customers out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been ordered to pay back nearly £30,000 to the authorities. Lawrence Siaw, aged 36, recruited bank workers to steal customers’ account details, then used them to plunder huge sums from their…
CA: Corona-Norco school district confronts security breach
Dayna Straehley reports: The Corona-Norco school district inadvertently published the Social Security numbers of more than 80 teachers and administrators on the Internet, a security breach discovered by an information privacy watchdog. Aaron Titus, information privacy director for the Liberty Coalition in Washington, D.C., said he found the list using a Google search as part…
Colorado gets first victims advocate for ID theft cases
David Migoya reports on how Colorado received a grant to have an ID theft victims’ advocate within law enforcement itself so that people can be referred to someone who can assist them. Read more about it The Denver Post
House bill asks states to link drug databases
Kathryn Foxhall reports: Legislation now before the House would renew federal grant funding for state prescription drug monitoring networks, but would demand more interoperability among the systems. Thirty-three states have Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), which are statewide databases for tracking records of dispensed controlled substances. Another 10 have provisions authorizing such systems. Read more…