Tim Becker reports: A stack of applications that contained personal information was discovered in a dumpster outside a pizza store in Salem. A viewer contacted KOIN 6 News after finding applications for employment at a Little Caesars Pizza store in a dumpster behind the business. “Pretty good stack of them [he found],” said Marilyn Peterson whose…
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Update to State Bar of Nevada breach
There’s an update to the breach involving the State Bar of Nevada first reported on DataBreaches.net . Yesterday, the state bar posted a notice on their website on the News section: The State Bar of Nevada learned that criminals forced their way into a State Bar storage facility and stole some confidential records. The State Bar…
TX: Document Shredding Company Employee Eyed in ID Theft Ring
Scott Gordon reports: A Fort Worth man who worked for a document shredding company did not destroy bank records and instead shared them with thieves, according to court documents. The number of potential victims is in the thousands and the total loss may be in the millions of dollars, a law enforcement source told NBC…
Criminal steals treasure trove of info on applicants to Nevada State Bar
Criminals who broke into a State Bar of Nevada storage facility stole confidential information on an undisclosed number of applicants for the state bar examination, putting an untold number at risk of identity theft. Those affected were notified by letter dated March 17 and offered free credit monitoring for a year:The notification was submitted to…
Kent Police fined £100,000 after interview tapes abandoned at former station
The Information Commissioner’s Office has served a monetary penalty of £100,000 on Kent Police after confidential information, including copies of police interview tapes, was left in the basement of a former police station. The highly sensitive information included records relating back to the 1980s, thought to have been left at the site when the building was vacated…
PNC claims former employee, Morgan Stanley stole information
From the bring-your-own-device-to-work dept.: Brian Bowling reports: A former senior vice president of PNC Bank‘s Palm Beach Office used her cell phone to snap pictures of her computer screen just hours before she resigned to take a job with a competitor, the Pittsburgh-based bank claims in a federal lawsuit filed Friday. PNC Bank and PNC…