Mike Rosenberg reports: A former employee at a San Jose dental office will spend four years in prison for stealing personal information from patient records to create credit card accounts he used to buy Gucci watches and flat-screen TVs, authorities announced Tuesday. Nick Luu and five other members of an identity theft ring defrauded at least…
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Kr: Samsung Card asks police to investigate employee for data leak
Samsung Card Co., one of South Korea’s largest credit card firms, has asked the police to investigate an employee on charges of leaking the personal data of its customers, an industry source said Monday. According to the source, Samsung Card discovered through an internal investigation that customers’ data including their names and mobile phone numbers…
(Update and Commentary): Why are states withholding the names of breached entities?
Yet another recent press release – this one from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Connecticut – shields the name of the breached entity: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATASHA SMITH, 25, of Georgia, formerly of Far Rockaway, New York, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday,…
Beijing Court Finds 21 Defendants Guilty of Criminal Privacy Violations
On August 5, 2011, the Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court announced its decision in what is reported to be the largest criminal case to date involving the misuse of personal information in Beijing, China. The Court based its ruling on Article 7 of the Seventh Amendment to the Criminal Law, which applies to three types…
MN: State workers allegedly access private data without permission
KARE reports: Like all drivers with a Minnesota license, Michelle knows the state has her personal information. She gave it when she got the license. But when Michelle received a letter last month from the Department of Human Services she was shocked to learn that a state worker accessed her personal and private information without…
PA: 2 charged in $290,000 identity theft scheme (updated)
Michael Hinkelman reports: Two Philadelphia men, including an employee of a health insurance company, were charged today with stealing the identities of 86 people in a scheme that netted them nearly $290,000, federal authorities said. An indictment alleges that Kenneth C. Osbourne, Jr., 35, used his position as a customer service representative at AmeriHealth Administrators,…