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Recruiter in Cheesecake Factory Card-Skimming Case Pleads Guilty

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Dissent

Note: this is a follow-up to a case previously covered on this site. Nicole Lakesha Ward, 28, of Washington D.C., pled guilty today to conspiring to commit bank fraud relating to a card-skimming scheme that targeted customers of The Cheesecake Factory in Washington, D.C. Ward faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison when…

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NY: Medical and doctors’ records scattered all over North Tonawanda

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Dissent

Dear Congress: Please view the TV coverage below and then tell me again why none of you have the determination and will to write and enact a bill that requires protection of paper records containing sensitive information and that requires notification in the event of a breach. George Richert reports: Confidential medical records were scattered…

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Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Report Stolen Laptop

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Dissent

From the Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital‘s web sites: On May 13, 2010, a physician from Baylor College of Medicine and affiliated with Texas Children’s Hospital had his password-protected laptop stolen from an office at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. Electronic files on the laptop contained demographic and clinical information of…

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A costly layover: laptop with over 32,000 SSN lost

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Dissent

Through its lawyers, Indianapolis-based First Advantage Tax Consulting Services (TCS) has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on June 10, a laptop containing sensitive personal information was lost during an airport layover. The documents on the laptop included information provided by employers who were receiving TCS’s professional services in determining their eligibility for…

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VA: Ex-owner of Smithfield farm store pleads guilty to $1.7M fraud

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Dissent

Tim McGlone reports: A Smithfield woman pleaded guilty today to three federal charges, admitting that she stole the identities of customers from her farm equipment store to obtain more than 80 loans worth $1.7 million. Linda T. Rowland, 60, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. Read more…

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Lax document disposal leaves privacy in shreds

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Dissent

Mary Mitchell reports: Imagine the anxiety of discovering that the information you divulged to one of the city’s leading bankruptcy firms was not kept confidential. Last month, hundreds of pieces of sensitive documents that were provided to the law firm of Robert J. Semrad & Associates, also known as DebtStoppers USA, ended up in a…

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