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Crime victims’ and witnesses’ sensitive information on devices stolen from researcher’s university office

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Dissent

Brian Bakst of AP reports: A University of Minnesota law professor has apologized to violent crime victims and witnesses after a computer with sensitive information of nearly 300 people was stolen from his office, but he said Friday that there’s no indication the thief has accessed the data. Criminologist Barry Feld, a prominent juvenile justice…

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Conspirators testify in Ramsey County identity theft trial

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Dissent

Chao Xiong reports the follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: A former state employee accused of stealing identities from a state database and other sources traded that information for methamphetamine, one of her conspirators testified Thursday. Roxanne K. Deflorin, 50, is on trial this week in Ramsey County District Court for the…

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Worried about Target getting your information if you sign up for the free credit monitoring with Experian? Don’t be.

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Dissent

I’ve seen a number of comments around the web from individuals who are concerned about signing up for the free credit monitoring by Experian that’s been offered by Target. So I contacted Experian and asked them if they share registration information with Target.  Here’s the reply I got from Greg Young, Director, Public Relations of Experian Consumer…

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Oops – some Burlington residents’ SSN exposed on the city’s website

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Dissent

The City of Burlington in Vermont is notifying some of its residents that their names and Social Security numbers had not been redacted from their tax abatement requests that were submitted to the city’s board and uploaded to the city’s website as part of a clickable agenda for the meeting. The information was uploaded on…

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Credit Card Receipts from Bay Area Old Navy Store Mistakenly Shipped to Shopper in Upstate New York

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Dissent

Ah, that pesky human error strikes again. Marianne Favro reports: Attention, Old Navy shoppers: Your credit card receipt, with full account number and signature, may have ended up in a random mailbox in Upstate New York. Anita Vogel lives in West Seneca, New York, near Buffalo. She recently received a package in the mail containing…

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Follow-up: Two Members Of Identity Theft Ring Targeting Government Employees Sentenced

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Dissent

There was a follow-up to this case, published January 10 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia: Adrienne Pritchett, 42, of District Heights, Md., was sentenced to 57 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.  Pritchett has also agreed to pay…

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