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Author: Dissent

CA: Laptops with financial records stolen from accounting firm

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Dissent

J. Harry Jones of The Union-Tribune reports that seven laptops containing personal and account information on Borrego Springs Bank customers were stolen from an unnamed auditing firm on March 5. The firm did not notify the bank fo the theft until March 18, however. Bank customers received letters this week about the incident. The letter…

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City of Lawrence to pay for credit monitoring for snooping victims

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Dissent

Jill Harmacinski of The Eagle-Tribune reports that the city of Lawrence (Massachusetts) will be paying for free credit reports for more than 400 people subjected to questionable background checks by the School Department. Officials are now trying to figure out how many of the more than 400 background checks were actually legitimate checks for School…

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Prosecuting the Mitsubishi UFJ case: what’s the crime?

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Dissent

The Yomiuri Shimbun has an article on the Mitsubishi UFJ breach reported earlier this week that suggests difficulties the prosecutors may face. In this case, a (now-former) employee allegedly used a co-worker’s credentials to access a database to which he already had authorized access. Using the co-worker’s credentials, he accessed and copied data on 1,486,651…

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Identities stolen at NC DMV

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Dissent

The North Carolina Dept. of Motor Vehicles is reporting that at least 13 people who used the Carrboro office between July 1, 2008 and April 6, 2009 may have had their personal information stolen — “names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, driver license numbers, Social Security numbers and possible medical information could have been…

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NE: Bruning Warns Against Careless Disposal Of Records

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Dissent

Mike McKnight of WOWT in Nebraska reports that as a follow-up to their exposure of a breach that exposed personnel files on more than 20 former employees of Claire’s, Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning gave Claire’s Corporation a written notice that they needed to develop a policy to ensure records are properly destroyed and not…

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Bits ‘n Pieces

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Dissent

In the justice system: Andrew Paparella Jr. was arrested and charged with stealing credit card numbers belonging to patrons of his restaurant, the Citrus café. More. Gene Anthony Franklin Jr. faces up to 73 years in prison for stealing the identities of more than one dozen people by posing as a real estate investor to…

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