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That was quick…

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Dissent

The Miami Herald reports that it took a federal jury less than one hour to convict a former Miami police officer who misused the D.A.V.I.D. driver’s license database to obtain identity information for a tax refund fraud scheme.  Malinsky Bazile had been arrested in March.

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Alabama state employee sentenced for stealing info from state database for tax refund fraud scheme (updated)

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Dissent

An update to a case reported previously on this blog: Lea Tice Phillips, who had been employed by an unnamed Alabama state agency, was sentenced to 94 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $567,631 for her role in a tax refund fraud scheme. Phillips had pleaded guilty in May. Aha. Finally we know…

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Errors by both Sentry Life Insurance and the Department of Labor expose 401k participants’ information online

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Dissent

Sentry Life Insurance is a service provider for many companies’ 401k plans.  In that capacity, they assist clients in the preparation  of, and submission of, the plans’ Form 5500 to the Department of Labor. On July 2, Sentry discovered that some plans’ Form 5500 submissions to DOL contained an attachment with the individuals’ names, Social Security numbers,…

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MN: Judge tosses data breach suit against state

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Dissent

Eric Roper reports: A federal judge has dismissed a series of class action claims against the state, relating to a former Department of Natural Resources employee who allegedly snooped into thousands of drivers license records. Lawsuits against the employee are not impacted by the dismissal. Nor, reports Roper, are the more than 20 lawsuits that have been…

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MNsure employee responsible for e-mail attachment breach no longer employed at MNsure

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Dissent

The MNsure employee who erroneously attached a spread sheet with 1,587 insurance agents’ names and Social Security numbers to an e-mail to one insurance agent is no longer working for MNsure. The Associated Press’s coverage adds that the employee violated internal policy by  storing unencrypted personal information about Minnesota insurance agents on a computer desktop. The agency…

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Audit of State University of New York at Albany reveals to-be-surplussed devices certified as “clean” still contained PII

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Dissent

I periodically post audits from the NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office pertaining to data protection.  A recently released audit of SUNY-Albany reminds us that we need to continue to be concerned about inadequately wiped devices or drives that are to be surplussed.  The audit period covered January – May 2012, and during that time, SUNY-Albany…

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