BATON ROUGE, LA –United States Attorney Walt Green announced that Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced LARONDA D. MOORE, age 38, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, yesterday to serve 32 months in federal prison for her conviction for aggravated identity theft and misappropriation of postal funds. Following her release from prison, MOORE will be…
Category: Theft
UK: ICO issues £180,000 civil monetary penalty in wake of data breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued civil monetary penalty (CMP) of £180,000 to the Money Shop in the wake of two incidents in 2014 that led to a fuller investigation of the Money Shop’s data protection policies and procedures. As described in the notice, on April 16, 2014, a Money Shop store in Lurgan, Northern Ireland was…
Ca: Electronic devices containing bureaucrats’ personal information stolen from government office
It’s probably diagnostic that I still get excited when I see a report that data on stolen devices were encrypted. Michael Woods reports: Someone broke in to a government building earlier this year and made off with electronic devices containing the personal information of 260 government workers, newly released documents show – a privacy breach…
ZA: Investigations underway into stolen UK visa applications
Gia Nicolaides reports: JOHANNESBURG – The British High Commission has released a statement saying it’s doing everything it can to assist people who lost their UK visa applications and supporting documents, following a hijacking in Johannesburg. Eyewitness News (EWN) has learnt that scores of South Africans applying for visas either for business, pleasure or permanent relocation, lost all their personal…
MT: Vandal gains access to medical files
Matt Hudson reports: Storage unit break-ins have become commonplace in the Flathead, but a recent incident had an unusual twist when a Kalispell medical practice discovered that its stored patient files had been accessed improperly. Urology Associates has been letting patients know that the firm’s storage unit, which houses thousands of patient files under lock…
Confidential Economic Freedom Fighters files stolen
Megan Ellis reports: Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema’s office was burgled, with confidential EFF files reported stolen. The burglary occured in Malema’s parliamentary office. “When the EFF Parliamentary support staff arrived in the office of the CIC Julius Malema in the morning of the 29th of July 2015, they found that the office…