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(follow-up) St Albans City and District Council takes action after voters’ details stolen

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Dissent

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found St Albans City and District Council in breach of the Data Protection Act. A laptop was stolen which was used to store postal voters’ records as part of an election process in June 2009. The personal information, which was password protected but unencrypted, remained on the laptop when…

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Three newly revealed breaches affect over 20,000

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Dissent

Cross-posted from PHIprivacy.net: The new HHS/OCR web site has added three more breach reports: Montefiore Medical Center State: New York Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 625 Date of Breach: 2/20/10 Type of Breach: Theft Location of Breached Information: Laptop Private Practice City and State: San Antonio, Texas Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 21,000 Date of…

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Student loan company: Data on 3.3M people stolen

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Dissent

From the Associated Press: A company that guarantees federal student loans said Friday that personal data on about 3.3 million people nationwide has been stolen from its headquarters in Minnesota. Educational Credit Management Corp. said the data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers and dates of birth of borrowers, but no financial or bank account…

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ID Theft Ring Stole Patient Info From Northwestern

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Dissent

Seven young women from Chicago, the south suburbs and downstate have been arrested for their alleged roles in a massive identity theft ring that claimed hundreds of victims from across the country. […] The year-long identity theft scam saw the those involved charging more than $300,000 in more than 500 transactions involving jewelry, furniture, household…

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ID theft ring exploited medical records to get credit cards

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Dissent

The Associated Press reports on an ID theft ring in Chicago that targeted medical records to obtain information with which they could get credit cards: Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says the ring charged more than $300,000 to the credit accounts of 245 victims. Dart says one suspect worked for a janitorial service that cleaned…

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Woman gets 3 years for credit-card thefts at park

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Dissent

Let’s never forget the low-tech headaches…. A Wyncote woman was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison in connection with credit-card thefts from people visiting Valley Forge National Historical Park and other public recreational spaces in 2006, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Karen Battle, 35, and two codefendants were accused of credit card fraud and…

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