Jeff Goldman reports: A 19-year-old student at Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School was recently suspended for seven days for stealing his father’s user name and password in order to change 18 fellow students’ attendance and course assignment records in exchange for money — the student’s father is a counselor at the school. The students…
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Calgary detective charged in alleged privacy breach
A 45-year-old Calgary police detective has been charged with unauthorized use of a computer and breach of trust. Police spokesman Kevin Brookwell said a financial institution allegedly approached the officer to get contact information for about 10 people who owed the business money. The officer then allegedly accessed the police database between March 2010 and…
Theft of personal documents in Fort Worth led to two-year crime spree
Dave Lieber reports that a nurse’s aide who was a convicted ID thief stole another nurse’s aide’s identification card and then used her identity in ” one of the biggest identity theft capers in Tarrant County, one that targeted more than half a dozen area nursing homes and home healthcare businesses and at least a dozen…
Six charged in skimming ring at Wrigley Field, Chicago restaurants
Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced criminal charges against six defendants alleging they illegally obtained personal banking information from patrons dining and visiting Chicago area restaurants and attractions, including Wrigley Field and Magnificent Mile’s RL Restaurant. Defendants Joseph Woods, Alex Houston, Jenette Farrar, Essence S. Houston and Kenyetta Davis were arraigned earlier yesterday in Cook County…
UK: Police officer on trial for using files to vet one of his wife’s tenants
A police officer has gone on trial accused of using a police station computer to vet one of his wife’s tenants. Harry To, a constable with Fife Constabulary, is said to have accessed the force’s “Crimefile” computerised recording system without authority on seven occasions. Read more on STV. Long-time readers realize that this is not…
Cigna to notify some insured that employee e-mailed their names and SSN home
Now that California is posting breach notes on its site, I’m finding out about a slew of breaches that I did not find through other sources. Of the 27 breaches they’ve posted since the beginning of this year, I didn’t know about 16 of them: They’ve now all been entered in DataLossDB.org. One just added…