Levi Pulkkinen reports: A 37-year-old Renton man accused of stealing hundreds of identities and credit cards was sentenced to a five-year prison term Friday in U.S. District Court. According to a statement issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle, Billy Morris Britt took part in an ID theft ring that targeted 23 different financial…
Author: Dissent
Press Copy to have your Identity Stolen
Melissa Yeager of WINK News follows up on their investigation where they purchased used hard drives on eBay only to discover that they contained personal information such as bank accounts, credit cards, social security numbers, even pharmacy prescriptions. The news team tracked some of the data back to Sears and Giant Foods of Maryland, who…
Follow-up: Settlement OK’d in DA Davidson hacker lawsuit, extortionists indicted
In January 2008, Davidson Companies, a Great Falls-based investment company, revealed that a hacker had broken into a database in 2007 and obtained the names and Social Security numbers of some 226,000 Davidson clients. A lawsuit filed against the company in April was re-filed in May of 2008. Now the lawsuit has settled and there…
UK: Primary Care Trusts breach the Data Protection Act
Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust and Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust have taken remedial action after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found them in breach of the Data Protection Act. Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust (PCT) informed the ICO of the theft of two desktop computers containing sensitive personal data relating to…
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to improve data security
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has pledged to improve the security of patients’ personal information after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found it in breach of the Data Protection Act. The ICO was provided with a report from the Director of ICT regarding the theft of a laptop computer from the Audiology Department. The…
UK: Probe over access to patient data
An inquiry is being carried out into a data breach at a Hull GP surgery after patients’ records were accessed by an unauthorised member of staff. NHS Hull said it was working with the police after the incident at a GP group practice in the west of the city, which affects about 350 patients. The…