In the criminal justice system: As a follow-up to a case previously reported, former Navy petty officer, Cora Dixon, pleaded guilty and accepted a 15-year prison sentence for helping run an identity theft ring. She was accused of using her access to direct deposits at the Fort Worth Reserve Joint Base to take banking and…
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National City Bank apologizes for misdelivered dividend tax statments
Law firm Prokauer Rose has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that its client, Developers Diversified Realty Corporation, became aware of a “potential security breach” on or about February 2nd. According to the report (pdf), National City Bank, one of DDR’s dividend disbursing agents, mailed some 1099-DIV tax forms on January 29th. In some…
Meanwhile, back in the UK…
Courier TNT has seemingly done it again. Documents with personal information on 27 people sent by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were misdelivered to another party. Read more on The Telegraph & Argus. If you don’t recognize TNT’s name, they were involved in other cases involving missing discs sent by government agencies. In…
UT: Files of personal information discovered by dumpster
Sam Penrod reports: Personal information including bank account and social security numbers was free for anyone to steal near the dumpster of a Draper real estate office Friday. North Star Realty says they were thrown out by accident. Read more on KSL
Bits ‘n Pieces (update 1)
In the criminal justice system: A Baldwin woman who used to work for CitiBank will now spend two years in prison for aggravated identity theft and bank fraud. A federal judge in Jacksonville handed down 26-year-old Isla Brumfield’s sentence Thursday. According to court documents, Brumfield had worked in the Customer Service Sales Department at CitiBank….
Identity-fraud warning after passports lost
Beck Vass reports: Police are worried that identity fraudsters are behind the disappearance of packages containing passports. The New Zealand Post parcels went missing between Auckland and the Indian High Commission in Wellington. Read more in The New Zealand Herald