Lauren Lea reports: Police busted a man inside a hotel room with about 20 pounds of stolen checks, personal mail, and numerous debit and credit cards. 35-year-old Steven Alcala is charged with fraudulent use or possession of identifying information. An officer discovered the stash after a hotel manager complained that Alcala hadn’t paid his bill….
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TX: Hacker gained access to personal data of all students, employees in Houston Independent School District
Houston Independent School District (HISD) announced an overhaul of their computer network security system Thursday after a hacker gained access to the private data of all students, employees and some vendors dating back 10 years. District officials said the first sign of the security breach was noted by HISD tech workers on October 24, 2010….
WA: ID theft bonanza left unsecured at state building
Tracy Vedder reports: TACOMA, Wash. — When we handed Lyle Lippel a set of documents that could have been used to steal his identity and cause financial ruin he said it was crazy and scary that the papers were so easy to find. Lippel’s private information was in a pile of paperwork dumped in plain…
Shell Vacation Resorts investigating security breach at some of their properties
Shell Vacation Resorts, which owns 26 properties in nine U.S. states, Canada, and Mexico, has been investigating a security breach at some of their properties that resulted in credit card fraud for an unspecified number of their guests and employees. An FAQ on the incident indicates that the breach occurred between June 2010 and October…
TX: Pile of Sensitive Documents Found Near Bridge
Farrah Fazal reports: … Hundreds of documents with personal information were found tossed near a bridge and could have ended up in the wrong hands. In the pile of papers were receipts, invoices and canceled checks. There were also phone numbers, addresses, drivers licenses and a Social Security card. Most of the papers that were…
FL: Thousands of voters’ personal information left in dumpster
Michael George reports that 1,000 to 2,000 voters’ petitions were dumped, unshredded, in a dumpster in Hillsborough County. … The petitions are essentially meaningless, since Norman got on the ballot anyway, but they contained voters’ names, voter registration numbers, addresses, dates of birth, political affiliation, and signature. […] So who dumped the petitions? The Hillsborough County…