Guillermo Contreras reports: A San Antonio man pleaded guilty this week to possessing numerous medical files stolen from an area doctor, while a local woman was indicted separately for using stolen identifying information in a bank fraud scam. Douglas Allen Ewert, 28, entered the guilty plea Tuesday to fraud related to stolen identification documents after…
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TX: Parents Of 60 Local Students Advised Of Possible Security Breach
Eli Ross provides a small update to a breach reported last month when student records of some students at Ellison High School were found blowing across a field: The Killeen Independent School District said Tuesday that it sent home 58 letters to parents of students warning of a security breach involving personal information including Social…
CO: Dentist leaves patient information in outside trashcan
Longmont – Medical records that contained patients’ private information have now been secured after 9NEWS warned a Longmont dentist that the non-shredded documents were sitting in a publically accessible trash can. The documents were found Sunday morning by a man looking for scrap metal in downtown Longmont. Stan Harvey called 9NEWS after finding the documents…
Former Emily Morgan hotel worker pleads guilty in massive theft case
In what has been a looong-running ID theft case involving paper records stolen from the Emily Morgan Hotel in Texas, another defendant, Cody Jones, has pleaded guilty.
UK: Council printer mix up breached data protection laws
Probably everyone has accidentally left some papers in a shared printer at one time or another. But when papers containing sensitive personal data get scooped and included in a mailing to an uninvolved their party, you may wind up violating the Data Protection Act. According to the Information Commissioner’s Office, that’s pretty much what happened…
MN: From the grave, Ulysses Telemedia lets secrets slip
I can’t access the entire article, but found this article by Jim Hammerand today while reading something else he wrote: The bidder was just interested in the file cabinets. But for $10, he got something much more valuable: dozens of boxes of corporate records, chock full of sensitive employee data, customer information and internal documents….