Nancy Amons reports that some Nashville, Tennessee flood victims discovered that their personal information was publicly available online after they submitted documentation such as canceled checks and other sensitive information online to obtain property tax relief. It seems that the Metro Assessor of Property had tried to make things easier for people to upload documentation…
Category: Government Sector
NJ: Tenants can’t get answers on Guttenberg security breach
Residents of Guttenberg’s subsidized public housing projects are afraid their personal information could be misused now that the Guttenberg Housing Authority sent them letters this month saying a computer security breach allowed “an unauthorized individual” access to their personal files, including Social Security and credit card data. The letters were not specific, and GHA officials…
ID theft feared at Ont. government website
The Canadian Press reports: An NDP critic is blasting the Ontario government after it revealed there was a possible case of identity theft linked to its driver’s licence address change website. On Saturday the government issued a news release saying it had “temporarily disabled the online address change function and has launched an investigation.” Read…
NM: Computer Heist at Bank Nets $700K: Student Loan Foundation Account Victimized
John Fleck reports: Someone accessed the bank account of the New Mexico Educational Assistance Foundation earlier this month, making off with as much as $700,000. The nonprofit foundation manages federal student loans worth $1.3 billion for 94,000 New Mexicans, said the organization’s president, Elwood “Woody” Farber. Farber said only the foundation’s bank account, not any…
TX: Child support fraud sweep nets two more (update 1)
Guillermo Contreras reports: Two San Antonio women who are among 13 people charged with diverting child-support payment money to themselves instead of the rightful recipients were released on bond Tuesday. Christine Aguirre is among the six former employees of Texas’ child-support payment processing contractor, Affiliated Computer Services Inc., who are accused of wrongfully diverting state-sanctioned…
Ca: Tax collector may have used confidential files for business leads
Chad Skelton reports: A tax collector in B.C. used the Canada Revenue Agency’s computers to look up the private tax files of hundreds of high-income individuals, apparently in the hopes of hitting them up for a business she ran on the side, according to internal government documents. The CRA’s internal investigation report, obtained by the…