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…
Category: Theft
Woman gets 3 years for credit-card thefts at park
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…
(follow-up) Kansas Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Identities in Fraud Scheme
As a follow-up to a breach incident previously reported on this site, Kansas City InfoZine reports that: Robert Leroy Maxwell, 45, has pleaded guilty to identity theft and other charges in a fraud scheme that cost banks and businesses in Kansas City, Kan., Olathe and elsewhere a total of more than $30,000. Maxwell pleaded guilty…
Action taken after insurance provider loses over 2,000 people’s details
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found that the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society breached the Data Protection Act (DPA) after eight laptops, two of which contained the personal details of 2,135 people, were stolen from the company’s Edinburgh offices. The individuals affected were employees of various firms which had sought pension scheme illustrations. The…
Computer theft raises fraud concern at Cal State L.A.
Larry Gordon reports: Cal State Los Angeles has notified 232 former students that a computer stolen from the mathematics department office last month may have contained personal information such as their Social Security numbers and grades. The names include students who took certain math classes between summer 1999 and fall 2005. Read more in the…
Vanderbilt University students’ information on stolen computer
Erin Prah reports: According to Liz Latt and Beth Fortune in Public Affairs, a professor’s desktop computer, containing the names and social security numbers of 7,174 current and former students, was stolen some time during the weekend of Feb. 6. Letters were sent on March 10 and 11 to the 7,171 current and former students,…