A former loan processor was sentenced Friday to to one year and one day imprisonment for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox also ordered Maria Lorena Croll, 24, of Raleigh, North Carolina, to pay restitution of $2,138.52. A federal grand jury had indicted Croll in December…
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TX: Confidential Bushland ISD documents found
Mitch Roberts reports: Bushland officials are wondering if an employee or perhaps an ex-employee walked out of the office with highly confidential documents. Those documents were dropped off at Pronews 7. The documents were from the “free lunch” program from 2003 to 2006. There was a note attached claiming the documents were found at a…
UK: Clinic computer stolen by addict (updated)
Lisa Nightingale reports: A former heroin addict with a criminal record spanning 30 years has apologised for stealing a computer from a GPs’ surgery. David Graham walked out of Flagg Court Primary Care Centre, South Shields, with one of its computers, containing patients’ files, on November 9. The 44-year-old, a former patient at the surgery,…
T-Mobile UK customer data sold
As an update to a report filed earlier today, Marc Chacksfield of TechRadar reports that it is T-Mobile at the heart of the data-selling scandal. The company released a statement: “T-Mobile takes the protection of customer information seriously. When it became apparent that contract renewal information was being passed on to third parties without our…
Hazelden sued for breach of privacy
Rochelle Olson reports: In late June, a 47-year-old woman checked herself into the 28-day alcohol treatment program at Hazelden in Center City, hoping to shake her years-long dependence on alcohol and maybe save her troubled marriage. The woman, identified in a Hennepin County District Court complaint only as L.B., said she entered the program while…
UK mobile phone data ‘was sold’ (Update 1)
Staff at one of the UK’s major mobile phone companies sold on millions of records from thousands of customers, the information watchdog says. Christopher Graham told the BBC that brokers had bought the data and sold it on to other phone firms, who called the customers as contracts neared expiry. The suspected trade emerged after…