Bill Laitner reports that a response to a freedom of information request provided more information than it should have: The Bloomfield Hills School District accidentally revealed the names and Social Security numbers of 321 employees to two district parents who requested the number of staff whose salaries and benefits totaled $100,000 or more. When parent…
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UK: Security scare as council loses memory stick containing medical info and access codes to the homes of thousands of vulnerable people
The Daily Mail reports: A council has lost a memory stick containing home security codes and medical information for thousands of elderly people.The data device holds the medical details on 4,000 people looked after by Leicester City Council support service as well as 2,000 key codes which can be used to gain access to their…
OR: Up To 75 VA Patient ID Cards Missing
KPTV reports: Dozens of patients at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center could be at risk for identity theft after their identity cards were lost. Medical center staff say 50 to 75 patient ID cards were lost in late January. The cards were being held by the hospital after they had been returned due to…
Personal information found in dumpster
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…
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…