Kenneth C. Crowe II reports on a breach previously covered on this site: A retired clerk at the state Department of Taxation who stole the identities of taxpayers, deceased family members and children to run up more than $200,000 in credit card charges will serve six months in jail. Rensselaer County Court Judge Andrew Ceresia…
Category: Government Sector
Update on Columbus Public Health incident
Bill Bush provides additional information on a breach first reported yesterday involving personal information of Columbus Publc Health employees: None of the health department’s 450 employees have reported identity theft, said spokesman Jose Rodriguez. The department thinks the information of as many as 300 current employees and about 100 former employees was compromised, he said….
OH: Personal Info Stolen From Columbus Health Workers
10TV reports that hundreds of Columbus Public Health employees were notified that personal information pertaining to some of them was stolen. The station says that the email notification read, in part: Our department was notified earlier this week that Columbus Police recovered stolen financial records and papers from Columbus Public Health as part of an…
State Department Employee Sentenced for Illegally Accessing Confidential Passport Files
A State Department employee was sentenced yesterday to 12 months of probation for illegally accessing 70 confidential passport application files. The sentence was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division. Susan Holloman, 58, of Washington, D.C., was also ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay in the District of Columbia…
WA: Prosecutors: Municipal Court worker passed credit card numbers to ID theft ring
Levi Pulkkinen reports: What could that Seattle speeding ticket cost? Your identity, according to federal court filings released Thursday. In a six-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court, federal prosecutors assert a Seattle Municipal Court employee passed account information into an identity theft ring in which four people are presently charged. Federal prosecutors claim Diamond…
UK: Apology after magistrates’ details sent to prisoners
Jack Doyle reports: The personal details of hundreds of magistrates were placed in the hands of convicted criminals in a data loss blunder, it was revealed today. A directory containing names, telephone numbers and email addresses of magistrates and court legal advisors in Norfolk was sent for printing in a prison workshop manned by inmates….