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$9 Here, 20 Cents There and a Credit-Card Lawsuit

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Dissent

Randall Stross reports: It’s easier to steal a million dollars a dollar at a time than a million dollars once. So goes an old saying. If the allegations in a civil case filed in a federal court in Chicago hold up, you can even haul off $10 million if you stick to $9 here or…

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FDLE: State prisoner scammed Orlando hotel guests

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Dissent

Susan Jacobson and Anika Myers Palm report on a case of inmate-orchestrated ID theft: A state prison inmate orchestrated an identity-theft scheme that tricked hotel employees and guests into helping him obtain credit-card numbers and personal information, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said today. Damion Andrico Goldsmith, 40, who has previous convictions for fraudulent…

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Details of 7,000 Cook County patients may be on stolen hospital laptop

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Dissent

It is troubling that within the span of a few hours, I am having to cover two stolen laptops containing unencrypted patient information as well as Social Security numbers. In this case, Carlos Sadovi reports: A laptop computer containing sensitive information about 7,000 patients of the Cook County Health and Hospitals System was reported stolen…

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Laptop stolen from U Kentucky had info on newborns and mothers

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Dissent

From the University of Kentucky: The University of Kentucky is notifying 2,027 people of a breach of protected health information. Between June 18 and June 21, 2010, a laptop computer containing information from the Newborn Screening Program was stolen from the Department of Pediatrics Newborn Screening Program. The theft was reported to the UK Police…

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UConn notifies 10,174 applicants of laptop theft

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Dissent

The University of Connecticut issued the following statement on its web site: University officials are investigating the theft of a laptop computer from UConn’s West Hartford campus that contains the names and social security numbers of 10,174 applicants, many of whom were selected for consideration to attend the regional campus. The theft of the computer,…

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Baton Rouge man pleads guilty to ID theft

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Dissent

Another reminder of what can happen if you don’t know who’s printing out computerized data: A man alleged to have stolen $150,000 while using the credit information of at least 30 current or retired Baton Rouge police officers has pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft. In a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, 48-year-old Alton K….

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