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Posted on October 19, 2010 by Dissent

Maybe he thinks any publicity is good publicity, but the Jackson Hewitt franchise owner who was caught dumping employee and client files containing personal information has announced that he’s running for City Council. News4Jax reports: A former tax service franchise owner who admitted Monday to dumping employees’ and customers’ personal information in the trash outside…

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Carolina West Wireless customer data found during vehicle search

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Dissent

Authorities are trying to determine how men in Beaumont, Texas, ended up with papers that had personal financial information of Wilkesboro-based Carolina West Wireless customers, said Wilkesboro Police Chief Robert Bowlin. Bowlin said a Beaumont Police Department detective contacted Carolina West on Sept. 30 and said Beaumont police had found 121 documents related to Carolina…

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WI: Former Adecco employee implicated in ID thefts of Milwaukee County workers

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Dissent

A former contracted employee for the Milwaukee County human resources department faces an identify theft charge – and so does her boyfriend. 26-year-old Starlita Sims and 25-year-old Christopher Lee Jackson are each charged with one felony count. But Sheriff David Clarke said Monday that the couple is suspected of stealing the identities of over 30…

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Real estate broker gets 69 years in prison for $17.5 million fraud

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Dissent

Rachanee Srisavasdi and Larry Welborn report: A real estate broker was sentenced to 69 years and six months in prison Monday for a $17.5 million real estate fraud scheme in which she used stolen identities to illegally purchase properties, then defaulted on the loans to pocket the loan money. Kathy Chen, 49, was convicted in…

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FL: Employees’ Personal Info Found In Trash

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Dissent

An employee taking out the trash at a Southside office plaza found boxes of employees’ W-2 forms, copies of their driver’s licenses, Social Security cards and other personal information, all from the tax company Jackson Hewitt. Cynthia Kessler said she found out Monday some of her personal information, including her Social Security number, driver’s license…

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Computer security at Tech questioned

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Dissent

Suzanne Barteau reports: A procedural mishap at New Mexico Tech’s Computer Center may have allowed the Social Security numbers of a few thousand people to be publicly available to anyone with a Tech computer account for nearly five years. William Colburn, Tech graduate, former Tech employee and Tech Community College instructor and current Tech student,…

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