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(Follow-up) Secret Service: Computer virus to blame for Jason’s Deli thefts

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Dissent

Janice Broach reports: Investigators believe credit and debit card thefts at the Jason’s Deli on Ridgeway in Memphis are linked to a virus that infected computers at the restaurant. “The computers received a virus that was unknown before this event,” Special Agent Rick Harlow of the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday. “It was a new…

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MO: Military social security cards & other papers found in dumpster

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Dissent

Jeff Cunningham of KFVS reports: It was an identity thief’s dream–original birth certificates, social security cards and high school diplomas all found in a dumpster. Heartland News was contacted by a viewer who found the items in a dumpster behind the Armed Forces Recruiting Center on William Street in Cape Girardeau. We counted dozens of…

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FL: Laptop theft results in data breach for P.K. Yonge employees, students

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Dissent

From the University of Florida: The personal information of more than 8,300 current and former students and employees of P.K. Yonge Development Research School was on a laptop computer stolen last month. P.K. Yonge is a kindergarten-through-grade-12 laboratory school affiliated with University of Florida’s College of Education. The computer files contained employee payroll, employee parking…

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DE: State’s benefits consultant posts retirees’ sensitive info on Web

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Dissent

J. L. Miller reports: Aon Consulting, the state’s benefits consultant, accidentally posted the Social Security numbers, gender and dates of birth for about 22,000 retired state workers on the web two weeks ago, state officials and the company said today. The information was part of a request for proposals that AON had supplied to the…

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MI: Condo Residents Victims Of Identity Theft

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Dissent

Residents living at a local apartment complex find themselves the victims of a nationwide identity theft scam. Many of the victims lost thousands of dollars before police froze their accounts. Police said a dozen residents of a Saline condo community, the Rolling Meadows Townhomes, have become victims of identity theft. Management sent out a warning…

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Researcher Creates Clearinghouse Of 14 Million Hacked Passwords

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Dissent

Andy Greenberg reports: Canadian researcher Ron Bowes has created a sort of Wall of Sheep for the entire Internet. By simply collecting all the publicly-spilled repositories of users’ passwords from recent hacking incidents, he’s created a clearinghouse for stolen passwords on his Web site–14,488,929 distinct passwords to be exact, collected from 32,943,045 users. Bowes didn’t…

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