The Herald-Citizen reports: Tennessee Tech University sent letters to 42 former and current employees yesterday informing them of a security breach related to personal identifying information. Through a cooperative effort between the university and the Cookeville Police Department, Tennessee Tech University learned that alleged criminal acts by a former TTU employee have resulted in unauthorized…
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CQ Roll Call and Bloomberg Issue Joint Statement
From their press release: The Economist Group and Bloomberg have discovered that certain former CQ employees now employed by Bloomberg were able to use the log-ins and passwords supplied to them during their employment by CQ to continue to access such information while working for Bloomberg and allowed a small number of other Bloomberg employees…
WI: Former AmericInn employee charged with stealing customers’ info
Vickie Mrotek reports: A 19-year-old Medford man accused of stealing credit card information is now charged with 65 felonies. Investigators say the crimes happened while Nicholas Johnson worked at the AmericInn hotel in Medford late last year. Read more on WSAW.com
Wave House Athletic Club employee pleads guilty to stealing customer info
A follow-up to an insider ID theft case mentioned last month: Christopher Polley changed his plea to guilty and faces between 180 days and a year in jail when he is sentenced Sept. 6, according to News10.com While working at the Wave House Athletic Club from May 2010 through January of this year, the defendant…
Willingboro woman sold IDs of TD Bank customers, used them to take money from accounts: police
Jessica Beym reports: A Burlington County woman and a New York man were each charged Thursday with one count of bank fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft in a scheme that netted them more than $170,000, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Authorities said Patricia Lightsey, 27, of Willingboro, worked as a…
GM notifying more than 800 workers of personal information breach
Melissa Burden reports: General Motors Co. said Friday that 883 active and retired GM workers may have had their personal information exposed — including Social Security numbers — after a GM employee copied personal information just before retiring in May. “GM has completed an investigation of this incident and is contacting the affected individuals to…