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AL: Pair busted with bag of credit cards

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Dissent

David Goodwin reports on the arrest of two low-tech ID thieves in Alabama: Rogers said he worked with Montgomery police to execute a search of Cudjoe’s home, where they found a potato chip bag containing 12 credit cards, none in their name, he said. He also found lists of the names, dates of birth and…

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MO: Real Estate Records Found In Dumpster

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Dissent

Betsy Bruce reports: Private real estate records turned up in a condominium dumpster in Hazelwood Thursday. Three banker boxes full of files from the Prudential Patterson Realtors firm were tossed into a trash bin. A resident who retrieved some of the files passed them along to FOX Two News. Personal addresses, phone numbers and a…

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Mass. General to pay $1M to settle privacy claims

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Dissent

Massachusetts General Hospital and its physicians organization have agreed to pay the federal government $1,000,000 to settle claims related to a worker leaving personal health documents on the subway. The hospital also agreed to develop a comprehensive new privacy policy to prevent patient information from being compromised in the future, and to provide training to…

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Cambridge Who’s Who attempt to block former employee from discussing alleged data loss fails in court

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Dissent

Occasionally, we find out about a data breach via court filings instead of notifications or media coverage. This is one of those times, it seems.  As far as I can determine, the incident discussed in the court case was not reported to the NYS Consumer Protection Board by either Cambridge Who’s Who or Proactive Technology…

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Hacking creates chaos for Snow Creek and its customers

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Dissent

Scott Canon reports: Snow Creek ski resort in Weston and many of its credit card customers appear to be victims of an attack by Internet hackers that first came to light Friday morning. By midday Friday the Platte County outfit had cut its on-site credit card processing system from the Internet and was warning customers…

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(update) Belarus man pleads guilty to running identity theft site

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Dissent

Robert McMillan reports the latest development in a case previously mentioned on this blog: A 26-year-old Belarusian man has admitted to running an identity theft website designed to thwart the antifraud measures used by many banks. Until he was arrested in April 2010, Dmitry Naskovetz had been the mastermind behind CallService.biz, a website that helped…

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