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Email exposed 4,000 Securities and Exchange Commission employees

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Dissent

Shan Li reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission is having some security problems. About 4,000 agency employees, including several in Los Angeles, have been notified that their social security numbers and other payroll information were included accidentally in an unencrypted email, said Drew Malcomb, an Interior Department spokesman. The May 4 email was sent by…

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(update) Massachusetts breach affected over 200,000

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Dissent

As a quick update: Matt Liebowitz of SecurityNewsDaily.com reports that the Massachusetts data breach disclosed yesterday may have impacted 210,000.

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Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development Reports a Virus Infiltrated the Computer Systems of Agencies tied to Employers, Unemployed Claimants and Career Center Customers

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Dissent

The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) today reported that the Departments of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) and Career Services (DCS) network, individual computer terminals as well as individual computers at the One Stop Career Centers were infected with the W32.QAKBOT virus, a new strain of a computer virus, beginning on April 20, 2011….

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FL: Pasco couple used stolen IDs, bogus tax returns to pocket cash, deputies say

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Dissent

Molly Moorhead reports: A woman who worked at a Regions bank branch is accused of creating nearly 200 phony bank accounts using real people’s names and information, filing fraudulent tax returns in the victims’ names and then funneling the money to her boyfriend. All told, authorities say, Howayda Hamdan, 28, had more than $1 million…

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MA: Lynn man gets 5-year sentence for selling personal information of TSA workers

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Dissent

As a follow-up to a case previously reported in 2010, Associated Press reports that Michael Derring has been sentenced to prison for selling the SSN, dates of birth, and personal information of TSA workers at Logan airport. Derring obtained the information from a relative who worked in TSA’s human resources department.

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Oakland police shut down Bay Area-wide identity theft operation

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Dissent

Harry Harris reports: Calling it the biggest they have seen, Oakland police said Monday that an identify theft operation that manufactured phony checks, IDs and credit cards has been shut down. Officials said there are potentially thousands of victims all over the Bay Area and in other states. The operation was run out of a…

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