Until Friday, the names, addresses, Social Security and driver’s license numbers of hundreds of people associated with Edward Waters College were accessible to anyone doing a Google or Yahoo search. In what college officials admit was a mistake, the information in faxes sent to EWC from employees and potential students was available online because the…
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UCSF employee charged with wire fraud
Henry K. Lee reports: A UCSF Medical Center employee has been charged in federal court with wire fraud for allegedly using the Social Security numbers of fellow workers to complete online health surveys so that he could receive hundreds of $100 vouchers. From January to April, Cam Giang of San Francisco used other UC employees’…
9 Indicted In Obama Record Breach
Nine people have been indicated in federal court on charges they accessed President Barack Obama’s student loan records while employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa. The U.S. attorney’s office says a grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Davenport. The nine individuals are charged with exceeding authorized computer…
VA: Personal info accidentally released by Campbell schools
Jessie Pounds reports: Campbell County Schools inadvertently released “personally identifiable material” as part of a response to a Freedom of Information Act request, Superintendent Robert Johnson said Wednesday. Darryl Whitesell, an attorney and Gladys Elementary School parent, said he received a document that appeared to include school employee names, schools and full Social Security numbers,…
Woman sentenced in UCM identity theft case
As a follow-up on a case previously covered on this blog, there was a small story in the Kansas City Star that Amanda J. Drake was sentenced to six months in prison for an identity theft scheme that targeted University of Central Missouri students. Drake’s husband is a former university police officer who was previously…
FL: Ex-teacher faces prison after pleading guilty to ID theft
Jon Burstein reports: A former high school teacher faces up to five years in prison after federal authorities say she pilfered the identities of past Broward School District students. Sheyla Diaz, 44, pleaded guilty on Friday to a single count of identity theft. She resigned in January from her job as a social sciences teacher…