Jim Shannon of WAFB reports on an ID theft case with a bit of a twist: Alton Davis was arrested for the identity theft of 31 current and retired Baton Rouge police officers, going back to 2005. But the scope of the problem is still unknown and may affect other municipal workers. Nothing in the…
Category: Government Sector
Court to Notify Veterans about Class Action Settlement Involving Laptop Stolen in 2006
From PRNewswire: A notification program began today, as ordered by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to alert veterans, spouses of veterans, and members of the military of a proposed $20 million settlement reached with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and certain Department employees in their official capacities (together…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Laura Bustamante, who worked for the Utah Department of Workforce Services, was sentenced to three years in prison for her role in an ID theft ring. Previous coverage here. Tiina Eldridge and Jean Paul Rudahunga were arrested after they were found in possession of fraudulent credit cards and credit card data…
UK: Council’s contractor reports laptop theft
Hayley Mace of EDP24 reports that the Suffolk Coastal District Council has suspended its work with a contractor, Lalpac, after a laptop containing unencrypted data on 3,000 was stolen from an employee’s home.
ID theft feared as files found in street in East New York, Brooklyn
I know that most of the world is more concerned with electronic data breaches than paper breaches, but I’ve always been as concerned, and in some cases, more concerned, about paper breaches. Here’s another example from New York, reported by Veronika Belenkaya of the NY Daily News: Dozens of confidential files with city public housing…
Walgreens Health Initiative notifies Kentucky retirees of email transmission error
Stephanie Steitzer reports that names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of roughly 28,000 state retirees were e-mailed without the required encryption to the Kentucky Retirement Systems by Walgreens Health Initiative, its pharmacy benefit provider. Affected retirees were notified by letter from WHI, who informed recipients that the mistake was “solely the responsibility of…