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Crooks Steal $644,000 from NYC Department of Education

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Dissent

Michael Cheek reports: Hackers have defrauded the New York City’s Department of Education of more than $644,000 by targeting an online bank account used to manage petty cash expenditures, according to investigators. The Department of Education’s bank account with JPMorgan Chase was supposed to have a $500 limit but, due to an oversight, any amount…

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Penn State warns of more cyber-breaches

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Dissent

An ongoing cyber-security sweep at Penn State found the Social Security numbers of another 25,000 individuals may have been exposed due to infected computers. The university said there is no evidence the data had been accessed after the computers were hit by malicious software, though individuals affected by the breach have been notified as required…

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TN: Sensitive Medical Paperwork Dumped In Church Lot

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Dissent

Nicole Ferguson reports: Thousands of patient records, surgery information, Social Security numbers and bank information were found dumped behind a Nashville Church. The discovery was made Monday morning at the Nashville Center Point Church of the Nazarene off 54th Avenue. […] The documents came from the now defunct and bankrupt Nursing Visioned Medical Services group,…

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BofA Call Center Worker Pleads Guilty to Data Theft

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Dissent

Robert McMillan reports: A Bank of America call center employee has pleaded guilty to charges that he stole sensitive client information and then tried to sell it for cash. Brian Matty Hagen pleaded guilty last week to one count of bank fraud. According to court filings he allegedly recorded customer account information when BofA customers…

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CT man pleads guilty in large ID theft and fraud scheme

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Dissent

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Luis Melendez, also known as “Ramiro Morales-Cruz,” 33, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft stemming from a…

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NHTSA’s Complaint Database Leaks Private Information Like A Sieve

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Dissent

Edward Niedermeyer reports: Our Canadian pal carquestions took a look through NHTSA’s public complaint database, and found four examples of personal information that NHTSA should have redacted but didn’t. You know, things like names, birth dates, social security numbers, addresses, VINs, and drivers license numbers. And he found those four after searching through “12 or…

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