Six people have been arrested on suspicion of stealing credit cards, personal information and banking details as part of a suspected online banking fraud. On Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 August 2010, officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s (MPS) Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), assisted by the MPS Territorial Support Group and the Irish Garda…
Author: Dissent
MA: Rockland town employees’ old payroll info scattered in street
Not a good day to be a public employee in Massachusetts, it seems. Here’s the second breach report of the day, this one by John P. Kelly: An unknown number of canceled checks bearing Social Security and bank account numbers of Rockland town employees are missing after wind knocked them from a loaded recycling truck….
Hundreds of Ont. patient health files stolen
If you’re going to have a breach, you probably don’t want the authorities finding out about it from the media instead of from you. CBC News reports: The head of Ontario’s privacy watchdog says she “hit the roof” after hearing from CBC News that a computer memory stick containing the medical files of hundreds of…
MA: Hingham to inform 1,300 employees of compromised personal data
Molly A. K. Connors reports: More than two weeks after a Hingham official inadvertently sent dozens of people a document containing the names and Social Security numbers of everyone who worked for the town last year, town officials said they will notify the 1,300 employees of the breach Wednesday afternoon through e-mail and first class…
When the road to ID theft is paved with good intentions
Nancy Amons reports that some Nashville, Tennessee flood victims discovered that their personal information was publicly available online after they submitted documentation such as canceled checks and other sensitive information online to obtain property tax relief. It seems that the Metro Assessor of Property had tried to make things easier for people to upload documentation…
Closing a Door on Child Identity Theft
The Identity Theft Resource Center offers a solution to the problem that has made headlines this week — young children have their pristine SSN misused to create credit histories for those who have poor credit ratings, are illegal immigrants, or have other illegal intent: Since the 1980’s, children in the US have been issued Social…