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Another stolen FEMA laptop highlights data protection problems within the agency

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Dissent

Diane Krieger Spivak of the Post-Tribune reports that a laptop containing Social Security numbers and other personal information on approximately 50 victims of the September’s floods was stolen from a housing inspector’s car on November 4. There was no explanation of why a housing inspector was in possession of the laptop. A FEMA spokesperson acknowledged…

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Western Oklahoma State College alerts library users of data breach

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Dissent

The Associated Press is reporting that about 1,500 users of the college’s library may have had their Social Security numbers and other personal information exposed because of a computer breach that occurred on November 11, but wasn’t discovered until February 18. No details of the breach have been provided yet. (Thanks to Wilma of the…

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National City Bank apologizes for misdelivered dividend tax statments

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Dissent

Law firm Prokauer Rose has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that its client, Developers Diversified Realty Corporation, became aware of a “potential security breach” on or about February 2nd. According to the report (pdf), National City Bank, one of DDR’s dividend disbursing agents, mailed some 1099-DIV tax forms on January 29th. In some…

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Meanwhile, back in the UK…

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Dissent

Courier TNT has seemingly done it again. Documents with personal information on 27 people sent by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were misdelivered to another party. Read more on The Telegraph & Argus. If you don’t recognize TNT’s name, they were involved in other cases involving missing discs sent by government agencies. In…

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OR: Identity thief gets 36 months in prison

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Dissent

A woman who fled the state in 2007 after being accused of stealing and using multiple credit cards of City Hall employees will get 36 months in prison. Christine Lee Foos, 35, plead guilty on February 23 in the Washington County Circuit Court to burglary in the second degree and three counts of identity theft….

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CA: Client data from mortgage broker found in trash

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Dissent

Jeff Overly reports: Folders with personal information for numerous clients of a local mortgage broker sat for days at a public recycling site, overflowing from the tops of several bins in an apparently glaring identity theft risk. The files contained bank account statements, completed tax forms, credit reports and Social Security numbers, among other information,…

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