Jeffrey Washington, 36, of New York, NY, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to a statement of facts filed with his plea agreement, Washington was a leader of a group that conspired to steal identity and financial information from Wells Fargo Mortgage offices. There were twelve Wells…
Category: Theft
Ca: Privacy breach at MUN’s School of Social Work
CBC News reports: Memorial University is dealing with a privacy breach after three desktop computers were stolen from the School of Social Work on its St. John’s campus. Communications Director Dave Sorensen said the computers were stolen from temporary offices in Coughlan College about two weeks ago. Sorenson said the university is still investigating, but it…
Criminal defense firm joins the ranks of those who have backup drives stolen from cars (updated)
Nothing good can come from a breach notification letter that begins: During the early morning hours on June 27, 2014, a hard drive containing backup files for one of the firm’s servers was stolen from the locked trunk of an employee’s vehicle. Not surprisingly, there’s even more bad news. Vincent M. Imhoff, Managing Director of Los…
KPCB notifies employees and partners of laptop theft
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a venture capital firm located in Menlo, California. Over the weekend of July 19-20, their building and office security were circumvented and several laptops were stolen. Two of the laptops were used by personnel in their finance department and contained employees’ and partners’ names, contact information, Social Security numbers and…
Personal data on 170 New Mexico State U. students on stolen laptop
Mike Bush reports: New Mexico State University has determined that the on-campus theft of computing equipment in June included a laptop with a link to personal information on some 170 students. The suspected thief, the university said in a letter dated Aug. 11 to the affected students, has been arrested and charged, but, “had disposed…
UT: Personal data at Weber State compromised in burglary
Danielle Manley reports: Personal information of as many as 1,200 students, faculty and staff at Weber State University may have been compromised during multiple possible break-ins to computer labs. A WSU student was charged July 29 in the incident. The burglar broke in after-hours to the Science Lab Building and Building 4, said Bret Ellis,…