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FBI: Thousands of PR children victims of ID theft

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Dissent

Danica Coto reports: An identity-theft ring that catered to illegal immigrants seeking to establish themselves in the U.S. stole the personal data of 7,000 public school children in Puerto Rico, officials said Tuesday. Members of the ring broke into about 50 schools across the U.S. island territory over the past two years to steal birth…

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Bits ‘n Pieces

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Dissent

In the justice system: Lloyd Barkley pleaded no contest to charges he collaborated with Atin Singh and his wife in a plot to steal customer data from an unnamed Indian restaurant where Singh worked; the fake credit cards were then used at a local Safeway. More. Jorge Ignacio Lozano Apodaca and Angel Ernesto Zapien Del…

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Met Life fax malfunction misdirects personal info

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Dissent

Metropolitan Life Insurance (Met Life) has notified (pdf) the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that for about two days in January, their electronic fax server malfunctioned after they had uploaded a software patch.  As a result, personal information on some customers — including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers — was misdirected to other fax numbers….

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Genica/Geeks.com still identifying new victims of 2007 hack

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Dissent

Genica/Geeks.com was in the news last month when they settled charges with the FTC concerning their database security.   Less than two weeks later, they were notifying at least one state attorney general that they had identified yet more victims of the breach that occurred in 2007. By letter dated February 16, 2009 to Maryland, Genica’s…

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CA: Octuplets hospital workers fired

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Dissent

Fifteen hospital workers have been fired for improperly accessing the medical records of octuplets mother Nadya Suleman, officials have said. Eight other staff at the [Kaiser Permanente Bellflower] hospital near Los Angeles were disciplined for looking at the records without permission, the hospital said. Read more on BBC See also L.A. Times

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NL: Bike locker codes – and bank account info – up for grabs

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Dissent

Karin Spaink reports: The personal details – name, home address, bank account, card number and unlock code – of the 50.000 people who have a subscription with OV-fiets, where they rent a bike locker at train stations, were available through the OV-fiets website. To retrieve personal data from the website, no password was needed, only…

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