BIRMINGHAM — December 27. A federal grand jury today indicted a Social Security Administration telephone service center employee for using his position to steal identifying information and benefits from Social Security beneficiaries, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Guy Fallen. A 14-count indictment filed…
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WA: Sumner fires temporary court clerk for sending herself city data on 3,600 people
Eager new employee or something nefarious? Hopefully, the former, but in any event, this breach was detected. Kari Plog reports: The city of Sumner has fired a temporary employee after she sent information about 3,600 people, mostly residents, to her personal email. City spokeswoman Carmen Palmer told The News Tribune on Friday that an investigation…
TX: Former Cuero city secretary charged with intercepting police emails
Sonny Long reports: A former Cuero city secretary has been indicted for intercepting police department emails and passing along the information to “people who shouldn’t have it,” said DeWitt County District Attorney Michael Sheppard. Lisa Moravitz, 39, was indicted by a DeWitt County grand jury Dec. 16 and arrested Saturday on two charges of unlawfully…
CN: Gang selling personal information busted
Ke Jiayun reports: A 10-member gang were caught in Beijing and Shanghai for illegally obtaining and selling personal information, with local police saying it had seized data belonging to nearly 1 million people. The gang made over 320,000 yuan (US$52,704) from the illegal dealings. In mid-August this year, a woman filed a complaint claiming her…
Travelocity notifies customers after service providers’ employees misuse customer data
On November 22, Travelocity notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office of a breach they first learned about on February 21. According to their letter, on that date they discovered that “over the previous several months, several employees of a Travelocity service provider had misused certain information to which they had access as part of performing…
W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital notifies clients after employee took their information to her new employer
Some companies shield others’ names in their breach notifications. Others are not averse to naming names. Consider this breach notification from W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital: The purpose of this letter is to notify you of a breach of some personal information that you disclosed to W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital, LLC (“WJB”) in connection with a…