Amy Alderman reports: A 58-year-old executive of the Illinois Secretary of State’s drivers license division surrendered today to allegations that he gave personal information he found in the Libertyville customer database to identity thieves in exchange for gift cards and sports tickets. According to David Druker, spokesman for Secretary of State Jesse White’s office, Charles…
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(follow-up) Romanian national pleads guilty to conspiracy in skimming
A Romanian national pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiring with another Romanian national to skim customer account information from PNC Bank ATM machines in Western Pennsylvania, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced in a press release last week. Alexandru Razvan Serb, 39 pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2010, to one…
TX: Cyber thieves hit Gregg County for $200K
Glenn Evans reports: An international cyber attack on the Gregg County Tax Assessor has cost at least seven taxing entities a total of about $200,000, officials said Monday. Other Texas counties could also be victims. The cyber theft hijacked local tax payments from a daily electronic transfer, that day totaling $690,000, destined for schools and…
FL: Company Dumps Files, Exposing Personal Information
KMax Systems said a new manager threw out a box of job applications in a Dumpster by mistake. The files contain personal information. A homeless man found the job applications in the trash. […] KMax sells Kirby vacuum cleaners door-to-door. Read more on ClickOrlando.com
Stolen storage device contained credit card info for Dartmouth freshmen or parents
Dartmouth College has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a storage device stolen from a secure room on or about Nov. 8 contained credit card information on 147 freshmen or their parents. According to the letter sent Nov. 22, data on the stolen device contained some combination of student and/or parent names, phone…
PA: Woodland Hills website lists some student test scores in error
A superintendent’s report posted on the Internet — intended to help Woodland Hills school board members decide whether to stop using an alternative school — exposed for more than a week the confidential state test scores of individual students. Woodland Hills Superintendent Walter Calinger said the portion of his report containing the names and performance…