Four suspects are under arrest and more arrests are expected after Placer County Sheriff’s detectives broke up a large-scale identity theft ring Tuesday. The suspects allegedly stole at least $100,000 from victims across the county, according to sheriff’s department officials. Jayson P. Krack, 29, of Citrus Heights, and James M. Marich, 45, Shelly McCrory, 40,…
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Tennessee man pleads guilty to ID theft, fraud involving military credit accounts
The Associated Press reports that Deldrick Toles, a former Fort Campbell soldier, has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to identity theft and bank fraud. A news release indicated that Toles “admitted to defrauding the Army Air Force Exchange Service by using Military Star account numbers belonging to others to…
OR: Hundreds of personal files dumped at Redmond site
Amy Easley reports: Dozens of boxes containing personal information, from bills to bank statements, were discovered at the Negus Transfer Station in Redmond Saturday morning. Joe, a Crooked River Ranch resident, said Monday he came across the files while he was unloading his recyclables. “I started looking at the files, and there was probably a…
Email leaks 350 Baptist East employee Social Security numbers
Here’s another case in which people whose data were revealed found out first from the media instead of from the entity responsible for protecting their data. WHAS11 reports: For the second time in less than a week hundreds of people in Kentuckiana are worrying about identity theft after their employer accidentally released their social security…
CalOptima Reports Potential Loss of Patient Claims Information (updated)
From CalOptima’s web site: ORANGE, Calif. (October 23, 2009) – CalOptima has identified the potential loss of past medical claims information for approximately 68,000 of its members that was stored on electronic media devices. CalOptima’s claims scanning vendor sent the electronic media devices to CalOptima through the U.S. Postal service by certified mail. On Tuesday,…
PING: U.S. DOT Federal Highway Adminstration
Last month, when I discovered that part of a subdomain of the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Adminstration was being used for spam, I used FHWA’s on-site feedback form to alert them to the problem. No reply. I called them later in the week and left a courteous voicemail. No reply. I also emailed…