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(follow-up) Kansas Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Identities in Fraud Scheme

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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Action taken after insurance provider loses over 2,000 people’s details

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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Computer theft raises fraud concern at Cal State L.A.

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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Vanderbilt University students’ information on stolen computer

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Dissent

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,…

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Arrest leads to large cache of stolen credit cards, driver’s licences, computers

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Dissent

Florence Loyie reports: City police found a stash of stolen credit cards, driver’s licences, debit cards and computers when they arrested a man wanted on 141 warrants last Friday. Officers in the downtown division special projects team were told David Shawn Tidman, 25, was at a residence near 145th Avenue and 27th Street. […] Police…

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New reports of data breaches in Massachusetts

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Dissent

Reporters Gal Tziperman Lotan and Todd Wallack of The Boston Globe obtained breach reports submitted to Massachusetts. Three of the ones they mention have not been previously reported in the media or on this site, so here’s a brief roundup of incidents to add to databases: John Hancock Financial Services: reported that a partner could…

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