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WA: Names of possible fraud victims posted to VPD website

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Dissent

Bob Albrecht reports from Washington: The Vancouver Police Department posted to its website the names of more than 400 people whose personal information may have been compromised, according to a press release. The names, as well as dates of birth and social security numbers, were discovered in a plastic bin inside a home in the…

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Telstra confirms customer data breach

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Dissent

Ben Grubb reports: Telstra has patched a data breach on its business website that had the potential to reveal personal information, such as date of birth, of 700 customers. Telstra confirmed to ZDNet Australia yesterday afternoon that the only details that could be sighted without the need to log-in were the name, address and account…

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Minn. audit: State was lax on data security issues

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Dissent

A report from Minnesota’s legislative auditor says state officials didn’t do enough to safeguard data in a system used to verify the citizenship of new employees. The state stopped using Texas-based Lookout Services Inc. last December after private data like employee birth dates and Social Security numbers were too easily accessed on the company’s website….

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Photocopier Hard Drive Exposes Tommy Bahamas Restaurant

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Dissent

Michael Rey reports: In just one day the CBS affiliate station KPHO in Phoenix was able to replicate the type of results of our investigation into the documents saved on the hard drives of digital copiers. […] No surprise that they found something. A lot of somethings. This time the sensitive documents were from a…

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Two Romanian nationals charged with stealing bank acount numbers

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Dissent

Paula Reed Ward reports: Two Romanian nationals are in federal custody for allegedly using card skimmers to steal the account numbers from PNC Bank card users and then using those accounts to spend some $200,000. Alexandra Razvan Serb and Mihai Popa are charged with bank fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Western…

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Lawsuits over Arizona tribe blood samples settled

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Dissent

At last, a follow-up on a lawsuit that I initially covered on this blog in November 2008 involving a case that actually started in the 1990s. Amanda Lee Myers of the Associated Press reports that the Havasupai tribe in Arizona has settled its lawsuits against Arizona State University for allegedly misusing blood samples. The tribal…

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