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Wells Fargo manager, Best Buy clerk charged with stealing identities of 9 people

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dissent

Sergio Bichao reports: Two former employees of a Wells Fargo bank in Warren and a Best Buy in Union are facing charges of stealing the identities of nine people to open fake credit cards and ring up more than $29,000 in purchases. Tinaud Garcon, 21, of Union in Union County, and Thomas Alexis, 30, of…

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CO: 100s of credit cards hacked

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dissent

Shane Benjamin reports: The Durango Police Department is warning residents about a large-scale debit- and credit-card fraud that occurred last month and earlier this month at Mama’s Boy Italian Ristorante. All credit and debit cards used at the restaurant between early August and mid-October were sent to a computer hacker, said Joe Farmer, investigator with…

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FL: Ocala Police Officer Arrested In Identity Theft Scheme

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dissent

An Ocala police officer and several other people were arrested in an elaborate identity theft scheme, police said. Investigators said officer Dana Brown collected the personal information of about 149 drivers so that others in the scheme could open 184 bank accounts to cash fraudulent tax return checks. Police said Brown accessed the information in…

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Louisiana law firm thinks it’s okay to dump records in trash, unshredded? Seriously, folks?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dissent

Don’t lawyers have a duty of confidentiality – apart from any state laws that might apply – about disposal of records with personal information? I am, well, frankly annoyed at all the news reports I’ve seen about lawyers or law firms not disposing of records securely. Here’s yet another one, this time from Louisiana: Below…

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In Hannaford Data Breach Case, First Circuit Says Card Replacement and ID Theft Insurance are Reasonable Mitigation Damages and Compensable–Anderson v. Hannaford Bros.

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dissent

I’ve been reading a number of analyses and commentaries on the First Circuit’s ruling in the Hannaford Bros data breach case.  While some people have described the ruling as a “potential game-changer,” Venkat Balasubramani provides a less optimistic analysis of what the decision may portend. As a recap, most of the plaintiffs’ claims have been…

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IA: Clarinda Bank Iowa customers notified of data breach

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dissent

Bob Eschliman reports that Clarinda Bank has been notifying some customers that their debit cards may have been compromised. The breach does not involve the bank and the entity that was breached was not named. As is often the case, the bank probably does not know where the breach was. Maybe we’ll find out sometime.  

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