Whig reports: As many as 165 employees of the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System received a letter from the VA informing them of a potential breach of privacy. This includes an unknown number of Perry Point employees. On Aug. 28, the personal vehicle of a VA Maryland Health Care employee was broken into and…
Category: Theft
Senior IT worker at top tech law firm arrested for insider trading
Joe Mullin reports: A senior IT employee with the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has been arrested for grabbing the firm’s confidential client information and using it to trade stocks. FBI agents arrested 41-year-old Dimitry Braverman at his San Mateo, California, home on Tuesday morning, according to a report in the New York Law Journal. He was released…
CA: Business owner suspects arson was meant to cover ID theft
Joe Goldeen reports: The owner of a real estate development company that was burned out of its longtime north Stockton offices said he believes the fire was intentionally set to cover up another crime. “We found it was an identity theft break-in. The fire was a diversion,” said Ken Brown, the businessman who moved his…
NY Man Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft; Ring Stole 1,800 Wells Fargo Mortgage Files
Jeffrey Washington, 36, of New York, NY, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to a statement of facts filed with his plea agreement, Washington was a leader of a group that conspired to steal identity and financial information from Wells Fargo Mortgage offices. There were twelve Wells…
Ca: Privacy breach at MUN’s School of Social Work
CBC News reports: Memorial University is dealing with a privacy breach after three desktop computers were stolen from the School of Social Work on its St. John’s campus. Communications Director Dave Sorensen said the computers were stolen from temporary offices in Coughlan College about two weeks ago. Sorenson said the university is still investigating, but it…
Criminal defense firm joins the ranks of those who have backup drives stolen from cars (updated)
Nothing good can come from a breach notification letter that begins: During the early morning hours on June 27, 2014, a hard drive containing backup files for one of the firm’s servers was stolen from the locked trunk of an employee’s vehicle. Not surprisingly, there’s even more bad news. Vincent M. Imhoff, Managing Director of Los…