Sean Poulter reports: Banks are increasingly refusing to compensate card fraud amid a surge in the number of victims. One in four Britons – more than 12million people – has been a victim of some form of card fraud in the past year, research has revealed. The average loss was more than £650, with one…
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PA: Identity Theft
A Cambria County man is behind bars after stealing credit card information from customers. 28-year old Charwan Wood worked as an employee at Inter-Media Market in Johnstown. Read more on WeAreCentralPA.com
Third US gov’t worker pleads to passport snooping
Grant Gross reports: A third U.S. State Department employee has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing dozens of confidential passport application files, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Gerald Lueders, 65, of Woodbridge, Virginia, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a one-count criminal information charging him with unauthorized computer…
Google responds: Consumer Watchdog wrong on medical records claim
Google’s response: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 3:12 PM Posted by Pablo Chavez, Senior Policy Counsel Earlier today a group called Consumer Watchdog put out a press release alleging a “rumored lobbying effort” by Google “aimed at allowing the sale of electronic medical records.” This claim — based on no evidence whatsoever — is 100…
Happy Data Privacy Day!
Looking for an event in your area? Check out the events listed on the Data Privacy Day 2009 site. The House of Representatives passed H.R. 31 by a vote of 402-0, declaring today National Data Privacy Day. If you would like to see if your representative was among the 51 co-sponsors, click here. The Senate…
JP: Man breaks into apartment, installs computer virus to steal banking details
This seems to be a “first” for the area: Police have arrested a man for breaking into the home of another man and installing a virus on his computer, which he later used to obtain his online banking details and steal 9 million yen from his account. Takamasa Kondo, 37, of no fixed address, was…