Kellene Stockwell of Channel2 News reports that the Reno Police Department is investigating nearly 30 reports of credit card fraud affecting Clearstar Financial Credit Union members. The reports began March 25th and all of the victims report unauthorized charges at Chicago-area stores. [name and headline corrected to “Clearstar”]
Category: U.S.
TN: Former child support worker nabbed for selling stolen personal info
TheCityPaper reports that Steven K. Gilmore, a former child support worker, was arrested after attempting to sell the personal information — including names, Social Security numbers and bank account numbers — of 1,600 people. Gilmore had been employed by Policy Studies, Inc., a private company that contracts with the Tennessee Department of Human Services to…
VA: Error exposes town residents’ tax info online
TMCnet.com reports that personal information for 7,845 Culpeper town taxpayers was exposed on the Internet last weekend due to an unnamed vendor’s mistake. The problem was discovered March 27 and the information was removed by March 30. According to the news story, the files containing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of residents were…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Glenn Love II pleaded guilty to conspiracy and aggravated identity theft for stealing more than 80 people’s identities by pretending to be a fraud investigator. Charges are pending against Vickie Parks Sheppard, who allegedly assisted him. More. Faced with a mountain of medical bills for her ailing husband, the lending director…
MD: State employee information lost in the mail
Gadi Dechter of The Baltimore Sun reports: The names and Social Security numbers of about 8,000 state employees and retirees were in a report “lost in the mail” this month, raising concerns about identity theft and questions about why sensitive information was sent through the postal service rather than electronically. […] On March 3, the…
MA: Patients’ files poised at trash bin
Kay Lazar of The Boston Globe reports: Hundreds of medical records kept by a longtime Acton family doctor who abruptly closed his practice last year are about to be destroyed, leaving patients without crucial information and exposing a gap in state law about who owns abandoned medical records. On April 8, a Lynn storage company…