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Citizens Bank Manager Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Identify Theft Scheme

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Dissent

Paige McAtee reports: A Stoneham bank supervisor was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on Monday for his involvement in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme in which he opened bank accounts to receive fraudulent proceeds. Carlos Mauricio Gonzalez, 30, of Revere, opened business and personal bank accounts that were to receive proceeds from…

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Seattle Public Schools fires law firm after their failure to redact exposed thousands of students’ records (Updated)

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Dissent

Heather Graf reports that Seattle Public Schools has notified parents of approximately 8,000 students of a breach involving their records. Most of the students involved are special education students. According to King5 News, the notification states, in part: “Late Tuesday night Seattle Public Schools learned that a law firm retained by the district to handle…

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WA: Former Pacific man sentenced to 80 months in prison for identity theft

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Dissent

Robert Whale reports: Vinod Ram skimmed diesel fuel credit cards belonging to commercial trucking companies then got cohorts to persuade truckers to fill ‘em up in exchange for cash. And in the 12 months that passed before the law caught up with him, Ram saddled those trucking companies and their credit card companies with $582,000…

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FL: Former Regions banker gets prison time, $1M+ judgment in ID theft

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Dissent

Margie Manning has an update to an insider breach first noted on this blog in May 2011: A federal judge in Tampa sentenced a former personal banker for Regions Bank to seven-and-a-half years in prison for her role in an identity theft scheme. The court also entered a money judgment of $1.17 million against the former banker, Howayda Hamdan….

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Chino Latino and Burger Jones hit by data breach

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Dissent

Clare Kennedy reports: Diners at Chino Latino in Minneapolis and Burger Jones in Burnsville may have had credit and debit card information stolen by hackers, owner Parasole Restaurant Holdings said. The intrusion affected about 5 percent of credit and debit transactions from January until July, when the Edina-based restaurant group became aware of the intrusion, according to a news release. Read…

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FTC Refutes Wyndham’s Challenge; Unreasonable Security Is “Unfair”

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Dissent

Patricia Ballin reports: Generating a flurry of conversation among privacy professionals worldwide, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week filed its response to Wyndham Worldwide Corporation’s interlocutory appeal in the Third Circuit. […] The FTC’s response outlines and affirmatively answers the three questions presented in Wyndham’s appeal: whether a company’s unreasonable failure to protect the security…

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