Note: this story refers to the City of Cleveland, Texas – not Ohio. Vanesa Brashier reports: The City of Cleveland will be reviewing how it handles documents that are shared with council members after 10 job applications were found in a public recycling dumpster in Cleveland. The citizen who found the documents turned them over…
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Spoiled Rotten Day Spa Owner Arrested, Charged With Fraud
The former owner of Spoiled Rotten Day Spa in Aptos was arrested Friday after several clients reported several thousand dollars in fraudulent credit card charges paid to the spa appeared on their credit card statements. One victim reported that his credit card had been fraudulently used four times for a total of $9,600. Spa owner…
Former Wachovia Bank employee sentenced for ID theft scheme
Marisol Morales, 40, of Philadelphia, was sentenced on March 16 to two years and one day in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft stemming from her role in a scheme that defrauded her employer, Wachovia Bank, of more than $300,000. Morales had pleaded guilty on May 11, 2009 to four counts of aggravated…
Stolen computers and hard drives with personal information recovered after break-in at Wheeler & Associates CPA
More than two months after a break-in at Wheeler & Associates CPA, lawyers for the firm have notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of the incident. According to the letter dated March 8, computers and hard drives stolen during the break-in included names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of an unspecified number of people. The…
Email gaffe results in breach notifications by Randstad Professionals
Massachusetts-based Randstad Professionals recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security incident after an email error resulted in images of individuals’ 1099 forms being inadvertently attached to an email sent to one of their outside contractors. 1099 forms are federal forms that include a consultant’s name, address, Social Security Number, and wages…
IN: Burned tax documents found in alley
Abbey Doyle reports that burnt – but still readable – tax documents were found behind Instant Tax Service, 3735 Madison Ave., in Anderson, Indiana. Employees inside denied burning the documents, but the manager never returned calls from the paper. A look through papers found in the alley revealed copies of W-2 forms, complete with total…