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CA: 356 Oakmont High School students’ transcripts stolen from counselor’s car

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Dissent

KCRA reports that identity information of 356 Oakmont High School students and their parents was stolen when student transcripts were stolen from a guidance counselor’s car. The unnamed counselor had taken the transcripts home with her to work last month, and the transcripts belonged to students with last names beginning with P through Ta. KCRA reports that the…

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PA: Shoulder-surfing identity thief sentenced to prison

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Dissent

Back in December, 2014, the Department of Justice reported that in July, a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh had indicted Robert MacVittie and Jennifer MacVittie on charges of conspiracy, Social Security fraud and aggravated identity theft. The couple was arrested in November, 2014, on charges that beginning around October 2013, they had used cell phone cameras to…

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NY: Woman charged with identity theft in misuse of co-workers’ information

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Dissent

I occasionally receive requests to remove an old article or redact people’s names. “I’ve done my time and am trying to turn my life around,” is the usual reason. And while I understand that, the policy of this site is NOT to remove old articles or redact names unless the person was acquitted. There is…

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Second Tampa General Hospital employee charged in patient identity theft for tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Dissent

There’s an update to a case first noted on this site in July, 2013. The Tampa Tribune reports that Shakania Benton, 37, a former Tampa General Hospital unit coordinator for the hospital’s main operating room, has been indicted on charges she disclosed patient information in connection with a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme. Previously,…

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Web.com Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Dissent

Melissa LaFreniere reports: Web.com faces a potential class action lawsuit over allegations that the website builder failed to provide reasonable security measures to keep the personal information of their clients safe.  Lead plaintiff Morgorna Mohorne filed the Web.com class action lawsuit after a data breach in August 2015 allegedly left her credit and debit card…

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Student charged with hacking N.C. high school’s computer system, changing grades

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Dissent

Andrew Blake reports a follow-up to a hack previously noted on this site. A teenager was arrested in North Carolina on Wednesday after a months-long investigation led authorities to believe that he broke into a high school computer system and altered several students’ grades in a Ferris Bueller-styled hack. High school senior Saivamsi Hanumanthu, 17,…

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