In the justice system: Four San Fernando Valley men were charged with ID theft and other charges in an alleged electronic crime scheme in which more than two dozen victims — including two banks — lost more than $400,000 via phony ATM withdrawals. More. As a follow-up to a breach reported in November, Luis Corona…
Author: Dissent
Indiana agency sent 4,500 social security numbers to wrong companies
Eric Bradner of the Evansville & Courier Press reports that Indiana’s unemployment agency, the Department of Workforce Development, accidentally sent the social security numbers of 4,500 out-of-work Hoosiers to the wrong companies due to a printing error by Pitney Bowes Management Services. It was less than one week ago that the New Jersey Department of…
No charges in document dump outside Boulder Kia dealership
Vanessa Miller of Colorado Daily updates us on the Boulder Anderson Kia dumping report: Police don’t expect to charge anyone for leaving 10 recycling bins full of customers’ personal information outside of the now-defunct Anderson Kia dealership in Boulder. Since the discovery of the documents Friday, investigators found that an operations director for Iron Mountain…
Texas attorney general charges four debt settlement companies with unlawful conduct — and a security breach
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is going after some debt-settlement companies for fraud. But the story reported by KTRE also includes charges concerning a security breach associated with one of the companies: Four Peaks [Financial] is accused of exposing its customers’ sensitive personal information, including name and credit card numbers, on its Web site. The…
A Reader’s Rant: “YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID!”
A recent post on a FACTA-related lawsuit touched a nerve for at least one reader. Erick Mann, ID Theft Group Security Specialist, sent me the following, which he’s given me permission to post here: I have found that the conversation sounds like a loop on a tape recorder: “We’re fine, that doesn’t apply to us”…
CAP Comments on HHS Health Data Breach Guidelines
By Peter Swire | May 22, 2009 Download the comments (pdf) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 imposes a new duty on health care providers and insurers to notify affected individuals about any breach of their personal health data. The Department of Health and Human Services has asked for comments on the first…