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NJ: Warren County Community College Alerts Students Whose Social Security Numbers Were on Missing Laptop

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Dissent

On Tuesday, September 27, 2011, the College was notified that a password protected employee laptop that had been taken off campus the previous evening was missing. Believing that the computer could have been stolen, the employee contacted their local police department to investigate a possible theft. In addition, the College notified the NJ State Police…

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El Paso County Community College hacked, defaced and data dumped

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Dissent

Over on Cyber War News (a blog I wish I’d known about sooner!), Lee J writes: El Paso County Community College has been targeted due to pure lack of security, @DestructiveSec has been busy away in the servers  taking what they wish snooping around and leaving a mess for them to clean up as well as a defaced…

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Wells Fargo manager, Best Buy clerk charged with stealing identities of 9 people

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dissent

Sergio Bichao reports: Two former employees of a Wells Fargo bank in Warren and a Best Buy in Union are facing charges of stealing the identities of nine people to open fake credit cards and ring up more than $29,000 in purchases. Tinaud Garcon, 21, of Union in Union County, and Thomas Alexis, 30, of…

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CO: 100s of credit cards hacked

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dissent

Shane Benjamin reports: The Durango Police Department is warning residents about a large-scale debit- and credit-card fraud that occurred last month and earlier this month at Mama’s Boy Italian Ristorante. All credit and debit cards used at the restaurant between early August and mid-October were sent to a computer hacker, said Joe Farmer, investigator with…

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FL: Ocala Police Officer Arrested In Identity Theft Scheme

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dissent

An Ocala police officer and several other people were arrested in an elaborate identity theft scheme, police said. Investigators said officer Dana Brown collected the personal information of about 149 drivers so that others in the scheme could open 184 bank accounts to cash fraudulent tax return checks. Police said Brown accessed the information in…

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Louisiana law firm thinks it’s okay to dump records in trash, unshredded? Seriously, folks?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dissent

Don’t lawyers have a duty of confidentiality – apart from any state laws that might apply – about disposal of records with personal information? I am, well, frankly annoyed at all the news reports I’ve seen about lawyers or law firms not disposing of records securely. Here’s yet another one, this time from Louisiana: Below…

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