Megan Matteucci reports: Clayton County Sheriff Kem Kimbrough is investigating a security breach after some deputies’ personal information was taken from internal files. The records include Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, employee identification numbers and an inmate’s medical information. Some internal investigation files have also turned up missing. Kimbrough…
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SoCal mailman accused of stealing ID papers, gifts
A mail carrier in San Diego County is accused of stealing dozens of gift cards, debit cards and Social Security documents sent through the mail. The Sheriff’s Department said Monday that Allen Pitman is suspected of stealing the mail over the last four years while working for the U.S. Postal Service in Santee. Read more…
WA: Kennewick real estate agent sentenced for ID theft scheme
Kristin M. Kraemer reports: A 56-year-old woman who helped her adult daughter defraud bank customers so they could buy expensive online goods tearfully said Tuesday that their relationship is forever changed. Cynthia Jean Walker was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Richland to six months in federal custody — the same sentence her daughter received…
CO: ID theft suspects charged
The Denver District Attorney’s office has charged two adults suspected of stealing hundreds of people’s identities out of homes, cars, hotels and a local hospital. Paul Simmons, 46, was charged with one count of identity theft, one count of forgery, possession of forged instruments and one count of theft of medical records. Dawn Philbin, 51,…
Phila. man pleads guilty in ID theft scheme
Danielle Camilli reports: A Philadelphia man pleaded guilty Monday to charges stemming from a scheme in which he admitted using personal information of customers at a Mount Laurel bank to open fraudulent credit card accounts. Anthony Wood, also known as Anthony Bickerstaff, pleaded guilty to second-degree computer criminal activity and second-degree identity theft before Superior…
UK: Data theft: More records missing
Council bosses have revealed eight computer hard drives, which could contain personal and financial information about residents, are still missing. Officials at Charnwood Borough Council say the devices are part of the same batch as one stolen by a former employee and sold on an internet auction site. They remain unaccounted for. That hard drive,…