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SC:Personal data from 12,000 York Tech applicants may have been exposed

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Dissent

Don Worthington reports: The names, Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers of more than 12,000 online student applicants at York Technical College might have been exposed, school officials said Tuesday. And it was one of the applicants who discovered the problem and brought it to the college’s attention. […] York Tech President Greg Rutherford…

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FTC Approves Final Order Settling Charges Against Cbr Systems, Inc.

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Dissent

Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges that Cbr Systems, Inc. failed to protect the security of customers’ personal information and that its inadequate security practices led to a breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and debit and credit card information of nearly 300,000 consumers. As part…

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Lessons from EDRM/FERC/Enron Data Privacy Breaches (updated)

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Dissent

Thanks to Joe Howie of BeyondRecognition.net for alerting me to what appears to be a very long-running, inadequately remedied breach that has exposed – and may be continuing to expose – the Social Security numbers and other personal information of thousands of people. I am posting this with some hesitation, as the data may still…

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And so it begins… attorneys general investigating LivingSocial.com breach

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Dissent

Attorney General George Jepsen of CT and Attorney General Douglas Gansler of Maryland have written to LivingSocial to request more information on their recent breach and how it may impact consumers. Their actions were announced in a press release yesterday. The Attorneys General have asked the company to provide a detailed timeline of the incident,…

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TN: Mayor’s donation check among records found in dumpster

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Dissent

Andy Wise reports: The director of an adult literacy charity is trying to figure out how the personal information of former associates and donors, including Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, were piled up inside the charity’s dumpster. “It absolutely should not have happened,” said Kevin Dean, executive director of Literacy Mid-South, based in Cooper-Young. “It was…

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Alabama Man Indicted for Multi-Million Dollar Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme Using Prisoner Identities

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Dissent

A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned an indictment charging Harvey James for using stolen identities to file false tax returns, the Justice Department the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced yesterday. The 34-count indictment charges James with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to the indictment, Harvey James obtained stolen identities from individuals…

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