Dartmouth College has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a storage device stolen from a secure room on or about Nov. 8 contained credit card information on 147 freshmen or their parents. According to the letter sent Nov. 22, data on the stolen device contained some combination of student and/or parent names, phone…
Category: Breach Incidents
PA: Woodland Hills website lists some student test scores in error
A superintendent’s report posted on the Internet — intended to help Woodland Hills school board members decide whether to stop using an alternative school — exposed for more than a week the confidential state test scores of individual students. Woodland Hills Superintendent Walter Calinger said the portion of his report containing the names and performance…
OK: Hundreds of personal documents found in dumpster
A Tulsa business finds hundreds of documents in its dumpster. […] The documents contained all sorts of personal information, dating as far back as 2004 and as early as 2009. Probst managed to save 96 of them before sanitation workers came by and emptied the dumpster. “Blank checks, social security cards, id’s, bank statements, telephone…
MD woman pleads guilty in tax fraud scheme that misused children’s identity information
Twanna Dorothea Campbell, aka “Twanna D. Gaines,” “ Twanna Campbell-Moore,” and “Mrs. T,” age 32, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to file false tax returns and aggravated identity theft. According to her plea agreement, Campbell and another individual owned a tax preparation business that operated under various names, including Phoenix Tax World,…
(update) Ringleader pleads in S.A.’s largest ID theft case
The 2006 theft of 17,000 customers’ credit card receipts from the Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio, Texas resulted in the largest case of ID theft the city has seen, as noted in previous coverage. A few elements of the case really struck me at the time the case made the news in 2009: (1)…
Is JCPenney Giving Your Personal Info To Strangers?
Chris Morgan of The Consumerist relays this report by a concerned J C Penney customer: My wife was contacted by a complete stranger who was able to track her down because while she was shopping on JCPenney’s site, my wife’s information appeared in place of hers in her cart (including address, etc…). People are having…