In the justice system: Stephen Bradford pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and faces a mandatory sentence of two years in federal prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and restitution to ID theft victims. More. Three British Columbia residents and two Winnipeg women are accused in a credit card scam involving stolen and forged…
Category: Non-U.S.
ID theft suspect’s charter rights breached
A provincial court judge has ruled a Chilliwack man arrested for allegedly violating other people’s personal domain had his own charter rights violated by police, though the police evidence against the accused will be admitted into the trial. Leigh Taylor Brandon faces 12 counts of identity theft offences, including fraud, possessing stolen property, possession and…
Liverpool Community College students’s data on internet
The personal data of up to 300 former students of Liverpool Community College was discovered on the internet. The information, which included names, dates of birth and student IDs, was discovered during the course of an ongoing ECHO investigation. It followed accusations the college’s IT department claimed funding for entire courses which did not run…
ICO: NHS Lothian to improve security
NHS employees failed to comply with data security requirements according to an Undertaking, signed by James Barbour, the Chief Executive of NHS Lothian. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found NHS Lothian in breach of the Data Protection Act after an unencrypted memory stick was lost and some paper files were temporarily left in a…
Update on Alico breach
Insurance firm Alico Japan said Monday the suspected leakage of its customers’ credit card information may have led to about 2,200 cases of credit card fraud, more than twice as many as in its previous announcement. Kazuyuki Takahashi, representative of the Japanese insurer affiliated with American International Group Inc, told a press conference that credit…
Files vanished, young Chinese lose the future
There is a bizarre story out of China were dozens of Chinese students have seen their future wiped out by the disappearance of their manila folders containing their records. In China, these paper folders follow a student throughout his or her career with every achievement, score, and prospect for a college education. While Chinese officials…