10TV News reports: Hundreds of Columbus Public Health employees were notified Friday that personal information pertaining to some of them was stolen. The employees were notified by e-mail. Spokesman Jose Rodriquez said Columbus Public Health was conducting an internal investigation. He said a criminal investigation was also under way, 10TV News reported. Rodriquez confirmed that…
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TX: Dental clerk sentenced for stealing identities of patients
A federal judge sentenced a Brownsville dental clerk to five years and nine months in prison for embezzlement and stealing the identities of patients to open credit cards. Claire Batsell appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Hilda Tagle on Tuesday. The 25-year-old woman pleaded guilty last year to fraudulent means of identification and aggravated identity…
NC Postal Employee Charged WIth Unauthorized Access, Fraud
In this case, the video gives a clearer description of the incident than the text on WNCT‘s web site:
UK: Privacy watchdog takes action after thousands of health records are stolen
Mark Hackett, the Chief Executive of Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust (SUHT), has made a formal commitment to improve data security after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found SUHT in breach of the Data Protection Act. On 19 October 2009 a member of SUHT staff left an unencrypted laptop containing sensitive personal information in a…
WA: Prosecutors: Municipal Court worker passed credit card numbers to ID theft ring
Levi Pulkkinen reports: What could that Seattle speeding ticket cost? Your identity, according to federal court filings released Thursday. In a six-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court, federal prosecutors assert a Seattle Municipal Court employee passed account information into an identity theft ring in which four people are presently charged. Federal prosecutors claim Diamond…
Clinton urges China to investigate breaches
Robert Burns of the Associated Press reports: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday urged China to investigate cyber intrusions that led Google to threaten to pull out of that country – and challenged Beijing to publish its findings. “Countries that restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of Internet users…