This site was contacted last week by a customer who had experienced the same problem as reported by other customers of Bike Nashbar (complaints here). Now the Citizen-Times is reporting that discount retailer Bike Nashbar (www.nashbar.com) is calling customers to warn them that their credit card information may have been stolen: A Citizen-Times editor received…
Category: Theft
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Marsha Billock-Strahm pled not guilty when she appeared in Toledo’s U.S. District Court June 22 to face charges of aggravated identity theft, false credit card applications, identity theft, and theft of mail while she was a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. More. Yi Feng Reid and Yu Jane…
UCM notifying 7000 of Breach
The University of Central Missouri is notifying 7,000 students who were enrolled for the summer of 2005 and the summer of 2006 that two computer reports containing their names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth were in two paper reports that were stolen. Source: KMBC
Commission for Teacher Preparation Computer Stolen
From Tulsa World: The Commission for Teacher Preparation is notifying individuals that one of its computer servers containing client Social Security numbers had been stolen but was recovered. The server contained the names of teacher candidates who tested for licensure and certification from 1999 through 2007, said Ted Gillispie, commission executive director. The server had…
FL Dept of Revenue Flash Drive Stolen
From the well-what-did-you-expect dept: The Gainesville Sun reports that the unencrypted names, addresses and Social Security numbers of 2,828 people employed by six state businesses being audited were on a flash drive stolen from the unlocked car of a Florida Department of Revenue employee in Marietta, Georgia on April 9. The revenue department sent letters…
CORRECTED STORY: Earlier CS Stars breach affected 722,000
[See correction at bottom of this post] Earlier this month, when CS Stars reported that a stolen hard drive contained claimants’ personal information, they indicated that although police had apprehended suspects in the case, the hard drive had not been recovered, and the total number of individuals with data on the stolen drive was not…