Eric Woomer reports: More than 70 percent of the property crime case-load for the Visalia Police Department involves identity theft, an increasing problem in the city and in Tulare. Detectives say identity thieves take advantage of people most often in five ways: Stolen mail Web crime Residential Theft Vehicle Thefts Wireless Crime Read more in…
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Time employee fired for misusing customer data
On January 4, Time Inc. alerted the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a customer service employee in Florida may have misused customer credit card data provided by several customers as part of their calls to customer service. The employee was terminated, and Time reported the matter to law enforcement. On December 31, Time sent…
Network flaw causes scary Web error
Jordan Robertson reports: A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch – the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T – revealed a little known…
FL: Appeals court hears case of pregnant woman ordered to stay at TMH
Portman reports: Does a woman lose her right to make medical decisions for herself when she is pregnant? Can the state effectively treat her as little more than an “incubator,” subject to the total control of her doctor? Those are the key questions raised by attorneys on behalf of a Wakulla County woman whose case…
ExposeObama.com exposes personal info
Ken Thomas of The Associated Press reports: Credit card numbers and other personal information about more than a hundred contributors to a conservative Web site unexpectedly showed up by fax at a Democratic lawmaker’s office. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said over recent weeks his office has received 139 faxes from ExposeObama.com, a Web site run…
Pizza delivery man cops to life in DarkMarket
Dan Goodin reports: A former London pizza delivery man faces a 10-year prison sentence after admitting he helped found the notorious DarkMarket forum for computer crime, several news sites reported. Renukanth Subramaniam, a 33-year-old Sri Lanka-born man from North London, pleaded guilty at Blackfriars Crown Court in London to conspiracy to defraud and furnishing false…