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TN: Former child support worker nabbed for selling stolen personal info

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Dissent

TheCityPaper reports that Steven K. Gilmore, a former child support worker, was arrested after attempting to sell the personal information — including names, Social Security numbers and bank account numbers — of 1,600 people. Gilmore had been employed by Policy Studies, Inc., a private company that contracts with the Tennessee Department of Human Services to…

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VA: Error exposes town residents’ tax info online

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Dissent

TMCnet.com reports that personal information for 7,845 Culpeper town taxpayers was exposed on the Internet last weekend due to an unnamed vendor’s mistake. The problem was discovered March 27 and the information was removed by March 30. According to the news story, the files containing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of residents were…

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MD: State employee information lost in the mail

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Dissent

Gadi Dechter of The Baltimore Sun reports: The names and Social Security numbers of about 8,000 state employees and retirees were in a report “lost in the mail” this month, raising concerns about identity theft and questions about why sensitive information was sent through the postal service rather than electronically. […] On March 3, the…

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NY: Box delivered to Sun office leads to investigation

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Dissent

Grant Parpan of the North Shore Sun reports: A cardboard box filled with records from a Holbrook social worker’s office — including Social Security and bank account numbers, addresses and phone numbers of clients — was delivered to The North Shore Sun last week by a town worker who said he found it lying on…

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Symantec Data Leak Remains Under Investigation (updated)

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Dissent

Brian Prince of eWeek reports: Law enforcement is still investigating how credit card information belonging to a handful of Symantec customers from the United Kingdom fell into the hands of an identity theft ring. Though speculation has focused on an employee of e4e, a call center in India, a spokesman for Symantec said its own…

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NC: Insurance agent charged with ID fraud

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Dissent

The News & Observer reports that Melissa Swain Parrish, a contract insurance agent with Miracle Insurance Co., has been arrested and charged with ID theft and obtaining property by false pretenses for allegedly stealing the identities of more than 100 people and collecting commissions by enrolling them in Medicare Advantage plans. Some of the people…

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