Canadian privacy lawyer David T.S. Fraser writes: The Federal Court, in the recently issued decision in Henry v Bell Mobility 2014 FC 555 (not yet on CanLII or the Court’s site) has awarded a very modest sum of damages to a customer of Bell Mobility whose phone account was accessed by an impostor. At the hearing…
Category: ID Theft
Calgary identity theft, mail theft investigation leads to charges against duo
Not as sexy, but never forget the risk from low-tech data theft. Jo Ann Lawrence reports: Garbage bags full of stolen mail along with bank statements, credit and debit cards found by Calgary Police in a southeast Calgary hotel room in May have resulted in dozens of charges against a Calgary duo. On May 12,…
Illinois Attorney General Madigan Indicts Married Couple for Scheme to Access Retirement Funds by Submitting Children’s Fake Death Certificates, Stealing Coworkers IDs
June 11 – Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced charges against former Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) employees for a scheme to steal thousands of dollars from the agency’s deferred compensation program that involved submitting fake death certificates for their living children and stealing the identities of former coworkers. Donella Anderson Watkins, 41, of Lansing, was…
Craftsman Book’s Credit Card Files Hacked
While I was away at PLSC, Jeanne Price of idRADAR reported: An estimated 11,000 home improvement contractors and do-it-yourselfers who bought products from Craftsman-book.com can expect a data breach alert in their mailbox or email Inbox soon. “May 27, we discovered unauthorized activity on a website maintained by our company, Craftsman Book Company. On May 28 we…
New Trier investigates teachers’ identity thefts
Karen Ann Cullotta reports: The apparent identity thefts of more than 40 former and current New Trier High School employees have prompted the school district to ask local and state law enforcement authorities for help with the investigation, New Trier officials confirmed this week. […] New Trier officials said they were alerted in March to…
Star Advertiser credit card breach could impact hundreds, if not thousands, of customers
Hawaii Reporter reports: Tori Samiere, who was arraigned in First Circuit Court on Monday, June 9, on four counts of theft, pleaded not guilty to the charges. Samiere, 54, is accused of conspiring with Sadie Jane Groy, 30, to steal the credit card numbers of several clients of Hawaii’s largest daily paper, the Honolulu Star Advertiser. Groy…