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TX: Man sentenced to 25 years for identity-theft scheme

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Dissent

Here’s another case of a stiff sentence for ID theft. Billy Coats was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraudulently using or possessing identifying information. At the time of his arrest, Coats was found in possession of more than 200 personal-identification items as well as computer equipment to make fake IDs…

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Rash of debit fraud due to Heartland Payment Systems breach

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Dissent

When Heartland Payment Systems announced a major breach on January 20, some banks and credit unions decided to replace cards proactively. Others decided to just monitor the cards flagged. Now, one week after the deadline for submitting claims to Visa, some banks may be regretting their decision not to replace cards. For example, consider this…

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Virus compromises Health Dialog Services employee data

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Dissent

On May 12, Boston-based Health Dialog Services Corporation notified (pdf) the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had detected a virus on their network that compromised company data, including data stored in the Internet Explorer browser cache on employee computers. The virus was detected on May 5. The company subsequently determined that the compromised…

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Update: Laptop stolen from UFCW also contained Canadians’ data

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Dissent

Remember that laptop stolen from United Food and Commercial Workers International in March? Some new details are emerging. First, it turns out that Canadians’ details were also on the laptop. Bill Kaufmann of the Calgary Sun reports that a local union president said the laptop contained information on 28,000 Alberta members, including their social insurance…

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MI: State settles lawsuit with psychiatrist

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Dissent

In a case that started in 2007 with medical records being burned on a farm, the Detroit Free Press reports: The Michigan Department of Community Health has settled a civil lawsuit against Southfield psychiatrist Dr. Soon Kim and Quality Health Plan Inc. for improperly disposing medical records from Greater Detroit Hospital in Detroit. Under the…

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Another processor breached!? (nope – see update 1)

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Dissent

WBZ is reporting that hundreds of bank customers are starting their holiday weekend off without their debit cards after a breach at the bank’s card processor, Metavante, forced the Winthrop Federal Credit Union to deactivate some customers’ MasterCards. At least one case of fraud has already been tentatively linked to the breach. No one was…

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