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Update on White Rock Networks breach

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Dissent

Yesterday,  I reported on a breach reported by WFAA in Texas, where boxes of intact personnel records, some containing Social Security Numbers and even medical information on employees, had been found next to a public dumpster in Plano. As Brad Watson of WFAA reported, White Rock Networks had gone bankrupt in 2006 and its assets were…

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TX: Personnel records found dumped outside Plano library

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Dissent

Brad Watson reports about dozens of boxes containing sensitive information: “I picked up a notebook that was sitting on top, I flipped it over and saw pages and pages of Social Security numbers,” she said. “I got concerned.” Inside the cartons, News 8 reviewed hundreds of names, Social Security numbers, medical records, home addresses and…

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(update) CA: Fraud reports linked to Sierra Madre gas station top 175

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Dissent

This entry updates the incident previously noted at http://www.databreaches.net/?p=16054 Sierra Madre police officers have taken over 175 fraud reports linked to EVG Quality Gas station in recent days, officials said Monday. The first victim reported identity theft on Dec. 27 after using her credit card at the 50 S. Baldwin Avenue gas station, which has…

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(update) FL: Panama City card fraud linked to Half Hitch Tackle

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Dissent

This entry updates a breach story previously covered at http://www.databreaches.net/?p=16029. WJHG/News7 reports: Panama City – Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen issued an update Monday in the investigation regarding the fraudulent use of debit and credit cards from multiple area credit unions and banks. […] Investigators have discovered that nearly all the victims have made transactions…

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Law firm’s credentials misused to access Experian database

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Dissent

Experian has a lot of clients and sometimes those clients’ login credentials fall into the wrong hands. That appears to be the case again. Experian notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on December 22nd that someone using the access login credentials of the law firm of Samuels, Green, and Steel, LLP had accessed an unspecified…

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Mailing glitch exposes CHS patron SSNs

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Dissent

After Minnesota-based CHS Inc. mailed PATR-1099 forms to its patrons in mid-November,  they received a call from one recipient alerting them that both the name and Social Security Number was visible through the window in unhyphenated form.  After investigating, CHS determined that SSN were exposed in at least some cases. In a letter to the…

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