A Belvidere Culver‘s assistant manager was arrested Tuesday for stealing the credit and debit card numbers of customers while working the drive-thru window. Curtis Peck, 28, of Rockford was charged with two counts of identity theft, a Class 4 felony punishable by one to three years in prison. Belvidere Police saw an increase in identify…
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Genworth notifies Long Term Care certificate holders after feds uncover data theft
Genworth Life Insurance Company is notifying certificate holders in three long term care plans after learning that their information was stolen. On December 19, 2013 Genworth was notified by federal law enforcement officials that some Genworth Group Long Term Care (LTC) certificate holders’ information was recovered during a criminal investigation. In a letter dated January 13 to…
Coca-Cola notifying employees after laptops with personnel information were stolen (updated)
Things don’t always go better with Coke, it seems. Coca-Cola Refreshments (CCR) is notifying employees “and other individuals” that they discovered on December 10th that several laptops assigned to current and former CCR/CCE users had been stolen. The laptops contained personal information. The letter, signed by their CIO, Tom Miller, does not indicate when the…
Same day, different email attachment gaffe
And yet another email attachment gaffe to report today, this one involving Apex Systems, whose employee accidentally appended a spreadsheet with employees’ names, Social Security numbers, and salary information to an email sent on December 1. The mistake was discovered on December 24. The notification sent to Maryland’s Attorney General and affected employees does not…
EasyDraft notifies Bright Horizons Family Solutions customers of breach involving bank information
eCommerce payment processor EasyDraft is notifying Bright Horizons Family Solutions customers of a breach that started in October 2012 with a misconfigured server. The breach wasn’t discovered until January 2014, however, when Bright Horizons contacted EasyDraft to alert them to the problem. In their report to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, lawyers for EasyDraft write: We…
GA: Biomat USA Employee Sentenced For Identity Theft Charges
Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Bridgette Williams, aged 31, of Macon, Georgia, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge C. Ashley Royal on Thursday, January 23, 2014, to serve six (6) months imprisonment in a case of conspiracy to commit fraudulent claims, identity theft and…