Dennis Woltering of WWLTV in Louisiana reports: Confidential records left in file cabinets and strewn through a former HANO [Housing Authority of New Orleans] office building in Algiers have raised questions about the agency’s promise to secure private information. HANO abandoned a former office loaded with all kinds of confidential information about two years ago…
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NY: Documents found in mall parking lot
WABC reports: […] The confidential papers were found by a man at the Palisades Mall in Rockland County. To make it worse, and what really got the man angry, is that no one at the mall seemed interested in taking those documents back. […] The applications are for a clothing store named Metropark, a Los…
Watt may appeal sentence
Todd Wallack reports that Stephen Watt, the former Morgan Stanley coder who provided Albert Gonzalez with a sniffer program used to steal data from TJX customers, may appeal his sentence: Stephen Watt was sentenced Dec. 28 by a federal judge in Boston to two years in prison and three years of supervised release and ordered…
(NARA update) More potential victims of identity theft notified of hard-drive loss
Elise Castelli reports: The National Archives and Records Administration last month warned 150,000 more people who interacted with the Clinton administration that their personal information may be at risk after a hard drive was lost. The December letters were the second batch sent in connection with the March data loss. Previously, NARA mailed more than…
Philadelphia woman charged in ID theft ring
On December 14, United States Attorney Michael L. Levy announced the filing of a two-count information (pdf) charging Cursheena Patterson, age 24, of Philadelphia, with one count of conspiracy to commit unauthorized access fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. According to the information, from October through December, 2008, Patterson allegedly obtained the names,…
WA: 130,000 at risk after computer breach at EWU
Levi Pulkkinen reports: Following a computer breach earlier in December, Eastern Washington University will be notifying 130,000 current and former students that their identifying information may have been compromised. While it remains unclear whether any students or alumni have had their identities stolen due to the breach, officials with the Cheney-based university are preparing to…