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(update) Texas office responsible for dumpster breach identified [repost]

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Dissent

[repost] As an update to a dumpster breach reported previously, KTSM in Texas reports that the office responsible for the breach was Tax Matters. Of note, Lindsey Reiser reports that at least one former client of the business was upset that they still had his records: “We had broken our relationship several years ago,” the…

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IL: Medical center employee sentenced to 8 years for ID thefts

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Dissent

Mary Shenk reports: Patricia Castor of Mahomet fought back tears as she told a judge how her late mother lived in fear after her wallet was stolen by an employee of an Urbana hospital where she was a patient. […] The wallet and identity thief was Karen Dooley, 30, of Champaign, a “transporter” for Provena Covenant…

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TX: Important Documents Left In Dumpster

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Dissent

Lindsey Reiser reports: Thousands of documents containing personal information were out in the open for just anyone to grab. They’re in safe hands now, but, we still have plenty of questions. That’s because they weren’t just any documents. They were checkbooks, federal income tax forms, W2’s, 1040’s, etc. – more than what you would need…

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WikiLeaks accused Bradley Manning ‘should never have been sent to Iraq’

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Dissent

I realize that readers may be surprised to see a news story with that headline linked from this blog, but if you read the report by Maggie O’Kane, Chavala Madlena and Guy Grandjean, you’ll see that as much as it reports on Manning’s mental health before and during deployment, it also reveals a lot of reportedly…

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MA: Steps taken to mitigate Sandwich privacy breach

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Dissent

George Brennan reports: Four teachers whose Social Security numbers were released publicly have been officially notified of the breach and offered privacy insurance by the school department, Town Manager George “Bud” Dunham said. The Social Security numbers were on forms released by an attorney working for schools Supt. Mary Ellen Johnson purportedly to show that…

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NY man pleads guilty to skimming Valley National Bank customer data

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Dissent

A Bulgarian native and Queens, N.Y., resident  admitted to a scheme to steal account information from bank customers by installing secret recording devices on ATMs in Nutley and Belleville, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Georgi Nikiforov, 25, pleaded guilty in Newark federal court to an Information charging him with one count of conspiracy…

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