This story updates the breach first reported yesterday. J. Harry Jones of the Union-Tribune confirms that laptop computers stolen from an accounting firm may contain personal financial information of many more banks and people than first revealed. According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, the laptops were stolen between 4:30 p.m. March 4 and 7…
Category: Theft
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In the justice system: Tax preparers and sisters Carolyne and Johanna Jones have been charged with using clients’ information to obtain fraudulent tax refunds. More. Former postal carrier Rodney Ervin was sentenced to 25 months for mail theft, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. More. Jennifer Derrickson was charged with seven counts of identity…
UK: ‘Stolen’ Blackberry containing personal details of cabinet ministers, police and MPs found
From the Daily Mail Online: A student paid £150 for a Blackberry phone which contained the personal details of cabinet ministers, others MPs, civil servants and senior police officers. Journalism student Darryl Curtis, 44, said he bought the device from a homeless man in Sheffield and found it contained the details of several hundred people….
CA: Laptops with financial records stolen from accounting firm
J. Harry Jones of The Union-Tribune reports that seven laptops containing personal and account information on Borrego Springs Bank customers were stolen from an unnamed auditing firm on March 5. The firm did not notify the bank fo the theft until March 18, however. Bank customers received letters this week about the incident. The letter…
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In the justice system: Andrew Paparella Jr. was arrested and charged with stealing credit card numbers belonging to patrons of his restaurant, the Citrus café. More. Gene Anthony Franklin Jr. faces up to 73 years in prison for stealing the identities of more than one dozen people by posing as a real estate investor to…
Hawaii Department of Transportation laptop stolen; 1,892 notified
Curtis Lum of The Honolulu Advertiser reports that 1,892 people with Hawaii commercial driver’s licenses are being notified this week that a Department of Transportation computer containing their names, addresses, Social Security numbers and other personal information was stolen March 18th from s state office. The laptop had been left unattended in the office.