Jim Douglas reports: A startling discovery in a trash bin has residents in one Arlington neighborhood angry. They want to know who tossed out dozens of sensitive, personal files linked to their homebuilder. [….] They appeared to be sales documents from K. Hovnanian Homes, a major builder. “I grabbed one of the folders and seen…
Category: Paper
Suspected Identity Theft Ring Leader Arrested
It seems like we were just talking about paper breaches and ID theft. Oh yeah, we were. Here’s another case from WFTV News today: A Seminole County man was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly stealing mail and using that information to make fake I.D.s and checks. Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agents arrested Leonard…
Breach reports involving paper records increase – ITRC
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has released an interim report that reveals that breaches involving paper records appear to be increasing significantly compared to last year while the number of incidents involving electronic records has not showed a similar increase. According to a press release today, paper breaches currently account for 25% of all…
Update: NM agencies investigate found files
As an update to an incident previously reported, Gerald Garner Jr. reports: After learning that a handful of sensitive documents had been “discarded” in a local dumpster, Socorro County and county housing authority officials launched an investigation into the matter. In a joint agency press release — issued Monday, Sept. 28 — officials contend the…
File Cabinet Purchase Leads To Identity Theft Concerns
Some former and current Panola School District, Oklahoma employees are learning that some of their employment records from 1998 and 1999, including W-2’s, were in file cabinets sold to the public. Now the people who bought the cabinets are declining to turn the records over to the school district without a court order and are…
State Requiring Prompt Med To Appear At Hearing About Dumped Records
As a follow-up to a breach previously reported, Kerri Hartsfield reports: The State Department of Justice is requiring an attorney for Prompt Med to appear at a hearing after hundreds of medical records were found in a dumpster and sitting alongside a street. Last month, a 2 Wants to Know investigation revealed that more than…