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Data Breach: SC ID Theft Laws May Keep Consumers in the Dark

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Dissent

Christine Scarpelli reports: …. A 7 On Your Side investigation found that South Carolina has no specific requirements for when a business has to warn you of a data breach. Companies can wait weeks, or even months, before telling customers their personal and financial information is in the hands of thieves. 7 On Your Side learned…

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IRS investigator from Alabama charged with fraud, identity theft in agency’s latest scandal

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Dissent

Elizabeth Beshears reports: An IRS agent from Alabama and his accomplice have been indicted for fraud and identity theft, resulting in thirty charges between the two men for conspiring to file fake tax returns. The indictments are the latest in a string of scandals to rock the agency responsible for collecting federal taxes and enforcing…

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DOJ: Cyber extortionists targeting hedge funds

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Dissent

Kaja Whitehouse reports: The government is working with “several” hedge funds that have been victims of cyber extortionists, said John Carlin, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. Carlin made the comments Friday at the SALT hedge fund conference in Las Vegas, where he came to warn the crowd, made up of hedge fund…

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We have met the enemy, and he is us, Monday edition…

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Dissent

Prepare to groan. The employee who left backup drives with databases on over 39,000 insured by the Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) in a vehicle was… ISMA’s Information Technology administrator. And then, adding to this outrage, the aministrator reportedly filed a delayed police report over 24 hours later. Keep in mind that the drives were…

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Former NRC employee indicted after attempting to sell nuclear secrets and launch cyber attack

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Dissent

Lucas W. Hixon reports: Charles Harvey Eccleston, a 62-year-old former employee of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Department of Energy (DOE) currently living in the Philippines, was the subject of an undercover investigation by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after a cyber attack was used to attempt to steal files from…

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For years, a Passport Agency contractor copied passport applicants’ data to create fake identities

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Dissent

Colby Itkowitz reports: A woman employed as a State Department contractor was indicted in Houston on Wednesday for an alleged identity theft scheme using personal information she stole while working at a passport office. The contractor, Chloe McClendon, and two other women were charged “with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and…

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