CBS reports: About 30 pieces of incoming mail were stolen from the mailboxes outside the DMV Riverside Call Center and DMV East Riverside Field Offices, DMV officials said Friday in an alert to customers. The thefts happened during the weekends of March 21 and March 28 and may have involved personal information from customers, DMV…
Category: Theft
CA: Pittsburg residents charged with stolen identity refund fraud
OAKLAND –A federal grand jury indicted Michael Johnson and Nicole Berry with conspiracy to file false claims, filing false claims, theft of public money, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and effecting fraudulent transactions with access devices. According to the indictment, between February 2012 and May 2012, Johnson and Berry, both from Pittsburg, California, conspired to…
Stolen CentCom computers found on eBay
Patty Ryan reports: The internal theft of five laptop computers from U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base went undetected until a supplier noticed four of them advertised on eBay, according to federal court records. A CentCom official ordered an inventory, putting it in the hands of a Riverview man who now admits to…
American Sleep Medicine patients notified of stolen hard drive
American Sleep Medicine of San Diego, which describes itself as conducting more than 4,000 sleep studies each year, is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that some of their personal information was on an external hard drive stolen from a locked server room. The theft was discovered on March 3rd and reported to the San Diego Police Department….
Advocate Health patients ask Seventh Circuit to revive data breach lawsuit
There’s an update to another case I’ve been following. Although Advocate Health won dismissal of some lawsuits stemming from the theft of four laptops with information on over 4 million patients, plaintiffs have asked the Seventh Circuit for another bite of the apple under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). So far, trying to litigate breaches…
University of California – Riverside notifying 8,000 whose SSNs were on stolen desktop
Mark Muckenfuss reports UC Riverside officials are notifying 8,000 graduate students and graduate applicants that their personal identity information is at risk. A desk-top computer stolen during a break-in at the campus’ graduate division offices March 13, contained the Social Security numbers of the students and potential students. Officials said they had no evidence that…