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Follow-up: Two men who stole bank info from Michaels customers headed to federal prison

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dissent

Kristin J. Bender reports: Two men could spend the rest of their lives in federal prison after they pleaded guilty Wednesday to helping set up phony debit card pads in a popular craft store to steal customers’ bank account and credit card numbers. Edward Arakelyan, 21, and Arman Vardanyan, 22, both of Southern California, each…

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MI: Wayne County sends out email blast containing some 1300 names and social security numbers

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dissent

Michael Rosenfield reports on yet another e-mail attachment error (there seems to have been a bunch of them recently): The personal information of some 1300 Wayne County employees is compromised after an email mistake by the county’s Department of Personnel/Human Resources. A spreadsheet containing the data was mistakenly attached to an email about health insurance….

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TX: Credit card fraudster gets 70 months

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dissent

Lynn Brezosky reports: A Corpus Christi man who admitted to making fake credit cards using [credit card] receipts stolen from a San Antonio hotel has been sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Steven Reese Clark, 37, also must pay $3,606 in restitution to victims of his fraud….

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GA: Thefts reported at OB/GYN offices in Gwinnett

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Dissent

Christopher Seward reports: The Georgia Obstetrical and Gynecological Society said Saturday its offices in Suwanee were burglarized and computers with information on its membership were stolen. It’s not clear to me from the spokesperson’s statement, however, whether they believe that this was a targeted theft related to their lobbying against anti-abortion or bills or for…

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Laptop stolen from Kennedy Space Center worker’s car contained personal info on 2,300 (updated)

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Dissent

13News reports that laptop stolen from a Kennedy Space Center employee’s car contained personal information, including Social Security numbers, on 2,300 employees and student co-ops. The laptop theft, which occurred outside the employee’s home, was reported to them on March 5. And no, the laptop was not encrypted. And why, oh why, are laptops with…

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Oink Privacy Hole Exposes Everything You’ve Uploaded

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Dissent

Mark Hachman reports: A Pulse employee discovered a security hole in Oink on Friday, which allows anyone to download personal information belonging to another, just by knowing their username. PCMag was able to confirm the breach the same way Cristina Cordova, a former Google employee now working in business development for Pulse, did: by downloading…

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