Terry Baynes reports: A public school teacher sued the Texas Comptroller’s Office on behalf of 3.5 million current and former state employees after the comptroller posted the employees’ private information on its public website. The class-action lawsuit was filed in Houston federal court on Friday. It accuses the state agency of inflicting financial and emotional…
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Omnicare notifies almost 9,000 that their Social Security numbers and protected health information were on a stolen laptop
Omnicare Inc. of Kentucky recently notified 8,845 patients who had protected health information on a laptop that was stolen on January 19. The firm, which provides pharmaceutical care for seniors, posted a statement on their web site for those using pharmacies in North Carolina: On January 19, 2011, a laptop computer was stolen that contained…
Law enforcement organization hit by hackers
Computer hackers have stolen names, addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card information of about 2,000 retired public safety officers belonging to the Peace Officers Research Association of California, according to a email sent to them on Thursday night. PORAC informed its members that its data server was breached earlier this month. The hackers stole…
WA: Silverdale ID theft suspect had at least 30 local residents’ personal information
I don’t cite them all on this blog, but there have been a lot of low-tech identity theft/fraud cases in the news in recent months. Here’s another example: A Silverdale man has been charged with second-degree identity theft as part of a scheme in which investigators claim he stole thousands of dollars, according to documents…
DSLReports says member information stolen
Elinor Mills reports: Subscribers to ISP news and review site DSLReports.com have been notified that their e-mail addresses and passwords may have been exposed during an attack on the Web site earlier this week. The site was targeted in an SQL injection attack yesterday and about 8 percent of the subscribers’ e-mail addresses and passwords…
FL: Two men sentenced in mail and aggravated identity theft ring
Ricardo Lee Penn, 48, and Dorian Jerrell Cawley, 26, both of Wellington, were sentenced this week to 94 months and 54 months in prison, respectively, following their guilty pleas to charges of conspiracy to commit mail theft and access device fraud, unauthorized use of access devices and aggravated identity theft. In addition to those charges,…