KOAT reports a breach out of New Mexico: About a month ago, Target 7 reported that Rod White, of Los Ranchos, was indicted on charges of fraud, forgery and identity theft. White tried to pass off fake checks using the state Taxation and Revenue Department’s account number. Officials knew little then, but APD detectives said…
Category: Theft
Retail sales associates sentenced for role in credit card, bank fraud
Four men from Atlanta Georgia were sentenced this week by United States District Judge Orinda D. Evans on charges of bank fraud, credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. “In this case two sales associates who worked for retail establishments assisted others in committing credit card fraud,” said Acting United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates….
Lawsuit: 29,000 say Kaiser hid security breach
Maria Dinzeo reports on a class action lawsuit stemming from a 2007 breach that was first reported earlier this year: Twenty-nine thousand Kaiser employees say the company did not inform them for more than a year about a security breach that left their personal information vulnerable to thieves. One employee says a woman stole her…
Laptop containing sensitive info stolen
It’s not yet clear what kind of “sensitive” information was involved, but: A 37-year-old Kingston woman reported her laptop computer containing sensitive information was stolen from her garage Saturday. The woman told Kitsap County sheriff’s deputies she put the laptop, which belongs to Boeing, inside her garage after removing it from her car Thursday. She…
Police look into shredder bin theft
Linda Golz reports: Authorities are investigating the thefts this week of large bins used to store paper waiting to be shredded from three FirstMerit Bank branches in Streetsboro, Westlake and Elyria. […] FirstMerit spokesman Rob Townsend said just one of the stolen containers actually had customer and bank information in it. Townsend said he is…
Highmark changes it procedures in wake of BCBS breach
Another lesson learned the hard way? In the aftermath of the theft of a Blue Cross Blue Shield laptop, Highmark, Inc. notified 50,000 doctors that their Social Security numbers or tax ID numbers were on the stolen laptop containing their unencrypted data. A BCBS employee had reportedly breached policy by downloading the unencrypted database to…