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Fire at a Brooklyn Warehouse Puts Private Lives on Display

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Dissent

Vivian Yee reports: No lives were lost in the huge fire that gutted a storage building on the Williamsburg waterfront over the weekend. But the flames put plenty of lives on display as the crumpling warehouse belched up its contents: decades’ worth of charred medical records, court transcripts, lawyers’ letters, sonograms, bank checks and more….

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CA: Victor Valley College hit by computer security breach; entire IT dept. put on paid leave

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Dissent

This is an odd one. Brook Self reports: The entire Victor Valley College Information Technology Department has been placed on paid administrative leave while campus police and an outside company investigate a breach in security protocol, President Roger Wagner said Thursday. While emphasizing that no private student or employee information had been compromised, Wagner said…

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TX: Home Depot IT employee stole 36,000 customers’ credit card numbers

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Dissent

KXAN reports: A Round Rock man is going to federal prison for stealing credit card information from customers at Home Depot. Prosecutors say Daniel Marquardt worked in the IT department for The Home Depot in Austin. Investigators say he stole credit card info from more than 36,000 customers, then tried to sell it online. Marquardt…

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Palatine Police Charge Fremd Student For Allegedly Sending Offensive Email

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Dissent

From the no-surprise-there-dept.: An 18-year-old Fremd High School senior from Schaumburg was charged by Palatine police today (Friday) with misdemeanor disorderly conduct for sending an offensive email. According to police, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, an email message containing an offensive image was sent to student email accounts at both Fremd and Palatine high schools. Police…

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Florida Man Sentenced In Identity Theft Scheme Using Inmate and Lexis Customer Information

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Dissent

A St. Lucie County resident was sentenced to 70 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Patrick J. Ward previously pled guilty to one count of possessing fifteen or more access devices and one count of aggravated identity theft. According to court documents, during a search warrant of Ward’s residence, law enforcement recovered…

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VT: Security breach at local dry cleaners

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Dissent

Rachel Karcz reports Fabricare has been hacked and customer credit card data was stolen.  View the news segment on WPTZ. A copy of Fabricare’s notification to customers was uploaded today to the Vermont Attorney General’s site here (pdf). The short version: If you used a credit card at any one of our locations between April 1st 2014 and…

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