Zach Fridell reports: Ten years’ worth of Social Security numbers for 1,300 past and present employees was compromised Tuesday night when a laptop was stolen from the Steamboat Springs School District office. Read more on Steamboat Today & Pilot
Category: Theft
Starbucks sued after laptop data breach
Robert McMillan of IDG News Service reports: A Chicago-area Starbucks employee has brought a class-action lawsuit against the coffee retailer, claiming damages from an October 2008 data breach. Laura Krottner was one of 97,000 employees notified late last year after a Starbucks laptop containing employee names, addresses and Social Security numbers was stolen on Oct….
More recent breaches we didn’t know about
Thanks to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office for posting breach notices online: Student Loan Xpress, Inc. reported (pdf) that the service provider for their student loans, American Education Services, inadvertently transmitted personal information on student loans to another lender that AES also has contracts with. The information may have included names, addresses, Social Security…
Del Mar students informed of stolen info
Mike Baird reports: As many as 53 students in the Del Mar College General Education Development Program have been informed that a printed class roster, with some of the student’s personal information, was stolen from an instructor’s vehicle Sunday, school officials announced today. Read more on caller.com
SF Man Accused Of Stealing Mail, ID Theft
A San Francisco man was arraigned Tuesday on identity and mail theft charges in San Francisco Superior Court after allegedly going on a mail-snatching spree that prosecutors said involved several, and possibly up to hundreds of residents. Prosecutors charged Bradley Williams, 31, with counts that included felony and misdemeanor identity theft, one count involving 10…
Man indicted again on fraud and identity theft charges
Chris Smith reports: A federal grand jury in Louisville, Ky., has charged a Clarksville man with crimes similar to those outlined in another indictment that came down last year. In November, a federal grand jury indicted Deldrick Toles, 28, then of Fort Campbell, on charges of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. He was accused…