Brian Krebs of The Washington Post reports that The Internal Revenue Service has awarded a contract to process tax return payments for the coming filing season to RBS Worldpay, a company that recently disclosed that a hacker break-in jeopardized financial data on 1.5 million payroll card holders and at least 1.1 million Social Security numbers….
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Feds: NYC Employee Stole Credit Card Info
The North Country Gazette reports that Evelyne Miracle, a former employee of the New York City Office of Vital Records has been arrested for stealing the credit card information of those who used credit cards to pay for copies of their birth certificates. The number of people victimized was not reported.
Watch an ID thief’s ‘commercial’
Bob Sullivan of MSNBC reports on an ID thief’s poorly thought out use of YouTube to advertise personal data for sale. 🙂
AZ: Couple: ID Thief Terrorized Us
KPHO in Arizona reports that Dominic Barnhill, a former military intelligence analyst, has been arrested on identity theft charges. Dominic Barnhill, who received nine honors when he was in the military, stole more than 100 identities, and kept detailed records on each of his victims with stolen mail, credit reports, credit cards and, in some…
Ex-Fed Employee, Brother Arrested In Identity Theft Scheme
From Chad Bray of Dow Jones Business News comes word that Curtis L. Wiltshire, a former information/technical analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Kenneth Wiltshire, his brother, were arrested in an alleged identity theft scheme: According to the charging document, Curtis Wiltshire had access to computer files containing personal information about…
Ca: Privacy breach in bank slip-up
It was one of those small breaches that many chronologies or industry reports do not include, but the fact that it made the media offers some hope that people continue to be concerned over breaches: Joanne Hatherly of The Times Colonist reports that when a customer was considering opening an account at an RBC Royal…