Guillermo Contreras reports: Credit-card numbers from 17,000 guests at the Emily Morgan Hotel were stolen and used in a three-state shopping spree to buy farm and ranch equipment, tires, machinery, all-terrain vehicles and other goods, federal officials say. Prosecutors unsealed indictments Thursday against five people in what officials say is the largest identify-theft case ever…
Category: Theft
WI: Village of Big Bend Employees Have Payroll Info Stolen
Employees of a Waukesha County village are worried about identity theft, after their payroll information was stolen. Big Bend Village Clerk Bobbi Wopper says the company that processes the village’s payroll had a laptop stolen from a car in Milwaukee last week. And police have not recovered that computer. She did not say who the…
UK: ICO finds three councils in breach of Data Protection Act
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has taken action against the London Borough of Barnet, West Sussex County Council and Buckinghamshire County Council for breaching the Data Protection Act. A systemic lack of staff training on how to handle personal information has led to the loss of sensitive personal information relating to thousands of children. Sally-anne…
Hard drive containing personal information on AMR retirees, employees stolen
Terry Maxon reports: AMR Corp. warned approximately 79,000 retirees, former and current employees Friday that someone stole a hard drive that contained personal information about them and their beneficiaries. “The data, which had been kept by AMR’s pension department, spans a time period from 1960 through 1995, and consists of images of historical microfilm files…
UK: Data from 13,000 farmers on stolen laptop
Mark Casci reports: An organisation set up to help improve the quality of the UK dairy market has had to apologise after it lost the personal details of thousands of farmers. A laptop computer containing the names, addresses, quota details, transaction reference numbers and telephone numbers of some 13,000 farmers was stolen early last month…
UK: Laptop with personal data of 24,000 people is stolen
More than 24,000 people in Hull and Leicester have had information about them stolen, it has been revealed. Training company A4e said the data was held on a personal computer of an employee which was stolen in “an opportunistic domestic burglary”. A4e said the laptop, that was taken on 19 June in London, did not…