Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 38 defendants from across the United States have been charged in a series of indictments that allege an extensive network of black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud…
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(follow-up) TX: S.A. has its largest ID-theft case ever
Guillermo Contreras reports: Credit-card numbers from 17,000 guests at the Emily Morgan Hotel were stolen and used in a three-state shopping spree to buy farm and ranch equipment, tires, machinery, all-terrain vehicles and other goods, federal officials say. Prosecutors unsealed indictments Thursday against five people in what officials say is the largest identify-theft case ever…
WI: Village of Big Bend Employees Have Payroll Info Stolen
Employees of a Waukesha County village are worried about identity theft, after their payroll information was stolen. Big Bend Village Clerk Bobbi Wopper says the company that processes the village’s payroll had a laptop stolen from a car in Milwaukee last week. And police have not recovered that computer. She did not say who the…
HHS proposes new privacy, security rules
Diana Manos reports: Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday new proposed privacy and security rules and resources…. The proposed rules come as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to ensure broader…
Cisco warns attendees that the Cisco Live database was hacked
Larry Chaffin writes: I, along with thousands of others, received an interesting e-mail from Cisco this morning warning me that details about me seem to have wound up in the hands of unauthorized people. Cisco Subnet editor, Julie Bort, also received an e-mail tip from a reader about the situation. You know I have many…
Data Breaches: A Black Hole – ITRC
The Identity Theft Resource Center is singing to this choir. Their most recent press release: As of June 30th, The Identity Theft Resource Center® recorded 341 individual breaches for the first six months of 2010. Unfortunately, hundreds of breaches have been veiled from the public, delayed in publication, or not listed on any public lists….