A Tulsa business finds hundreds of documents in its dumpster. […] The documents contained all sorts of personal information, dating as far back as 2004 and as early as 2009. Probst managed to save 96 of them before sanitation workers came by and emptied the dumpster. “Blank checks, social security cards, id’s, bank statements, telephone…
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MD woman pleads guilty in tax fraud scheme that misused children’s identity information
Twanna Dorothea Campbell, aka “Twanna D. Gaines,” “ Twanna Campbell-Moore,” and “Mrs. T,” age 32, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to file false tax returns and aggravated identity theft. According to her plea agreement, Campbell and another individual owned a tax preparation business that operated under various names, including Phoenix Tax World,…
(update) Ringleader pleads in S.A.’s largest ID theft case
The 2006 theft of 17,000 customers’ credit card receipts from the Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio, Texas resulted in the largest case of ID theft the city has seen, as noted in previous coverage. A few elements of the case really struck me at the time the case made the news in 2009: (1)…
Is JCPenney Giving Your Personal Info To Strangers?
Chris Morgan of The Consumerist relays this report by a concerned J C Penney customer: My wife was contacted by a complete stranger who was able to track her down because while she was shopping on JCPenney’s site, my wife’s information appeared in place of hers in her cart (including address, etc…). People are having…
FL: Hampton Inn reports hacker modified customer surveys
Dennis Culver reports on a hack that probably won’t get prosecuted: The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Thursday reported theft of intellectual property at the Hampton Inn at 11281 Summerlin Square Dr. The complainant, Esther Gayfield, told investigators an unknown suspect had hacked into the hotel’s computer system network and modified customer surveys…
(Update) ALDI breach affected 17,000 New York residents
Back in October, I noted that the ALDI breach had affected 8,000 Maryland residents. New York State’s breach logs for October, posted online, indicates that ALDI had reported on October 1 that 17,000 NYS residents were affected. Given that the breach affected customers in 11 states and there are 25,000 affected in just two of…