United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal grand jury indicted a Mississippi woman for being part of a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities and causing the refunds to be mailed to post office boxes in Louisiana. Shannon A. Brumfield, 48, of Byram, Miss., was indicted on…
Category: Government Sector
Ca: City of Oshawa reports privacy breach after 1,000 recreation user e-mail addresses released
Oshawa This Week reports: Oshawa officials are reporting a privacy breach in the recreation and culture department after a list of e-mail addresses was accidentally released. The breach affects people who authorized the City to contact them and also participated in a 2015 fitness program or registered for aquatics such as swim lessons in 2015….
CNN sources: IRS believes massive data theft originated in Russia
Chris Frates reports: The IRS believes that a major cyber breach that allowed criminals to steal the tax returns of more than 100,000 people originated in Russia, two sources briefed on the data theft tell CNN. Read more on CNN. If you bet Russia, drink. If you bet China or North Korea, just be patient,…
Florida releases personal data on 13,000 people, issues ‘fraud’ alert
Steve Bousquet reports: For the second time in two months, Gov. Rick Scott’s administration has acknowledged it inadvertently released confidential personal data of private citizens, prompting the state to offer free credit monitoring services to protect people from being victims of identity theft. The Department of State said it released names, dates of birth and…
Ca: Royal Newfoundland Constabulary staffer breached 12 people’s privacy using police database
Ariana Kelland reports: The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary says it has completed an internal review into a privacy breach that spanned several years and impacted 12 people whose private information was accessed by a civilian employee of the force on the northeast Avalon. Documents obtained by CBC News through access to information revealed several privacy breaches involving one staffer that…
FL: Jail worker indicted on charges of inmate ID theft, tax fraud
Desiree Stennett reports: An Orange County Jail worker is expected to go to trial in July after she was accused of stealing personal information from inmates and giving it to identity thieves who filed fake tax returns. Corrections officer Lori Ann Dilworth and her two accused accomplices, Shantrell Stephenson and Richard Mitchell, face charges of…