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Ca: Thousands of old papers with personal info on guests found behind Best Western Primrose

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Dissent

Chris Doucette reports: Thousands of slips of paper with personal information of past guests from around the world were found blowing in the wind in an alley behind a downtown hotel Friday morning. And many of the old documents, found around 7:30 a.m. scattered next to a dumpster behind the Best Western Primrose at Carlton…

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Illinois AG sues Payday Loan Store over improper disposal of customer data

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Dissent

Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against The Payday Loan Store of Illinois, Inc. (PLS), for allegedly failing to safeguard customer data as promised. The Attorney General filed the suit after learning that documents containing customers’ personal information had turned up in trash bins outside four store locations….

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University of North Florida: over 106,000 being notified of hack from outside of U.S.

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Dissent

The University of North Florida has issued this statement on its website: Impacted individuals being notified Between September 24, 2010 and September 29, 2010, a UNF file containing the personal information of high school and college students (and others interested in UNF) may have been accessed by unauthorized persons outside the United States.  While immediate steps…

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Former MedAssets employee sentenced to 15 years in University of Texas Medical Branch breach

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Dissent

This is a follow-up to the University of Texas Medical Branch breach previously reported here and here. United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in Waco, 34-year-old Katina Candrick of LaGrange, Texas, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $163,185.19 restitution for unlawful possession of fraudulent identification documents and…

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Citibank employee stole customers’ credit card numbers as part of 3-woman fraud ring

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Dissent

A New York woman was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for her role in a scheme that defrauded customers of a Florence, Kentucky bank out of over one million dollars. U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning sentenced 38-year-old Lisa Reid for one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity…

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VA: 35,000 residents’ SSNs compromised when Accomack County laptop stolen on employee’s vacation to Vegas

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Dissent

We all know how I love reporting on laptops stolen from cars because it’s just such an unusual thing and no one could have possibly foreseen it, right? Ted Shockley reports: An Accomack employee had a county-owned laptop computer stolen while on a personal vacation to Las Vegas, and with it the names and Social…

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