Mark Hawthorne of The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is investigating how the private account details of Opes Prime clients were acquired by New York- based PrimeShares World Markets. Read more.
Category: U.S.
OH: St. Rita’s patients warned of possible ID theft
A bag stolen last month from the car of a home-health employee for St. Rita’s Medical Center contained personal and/or medical information on 242 patients, including, in some cases, Social Security numbers. Read more in LimaOhio.com
FL: Personal info on computers stolen from repair shop
Dozens of families in Volusia County had their personal information stolen when computers were stolen from a repair shop, Instant IT. And the repair shop discovered it may not have insurance to cover the theft…. Read more on WFTV
NYPD civilian worker busted in mass cop-ID Theft
Reuven Blau reports: A civilian official of the NYPD’s pension fund has been charged with taking computer data that could be used to steal the identities of 80,000 current and retired cops, sources said. Anthony Bonelli allegedly got into a secret backup-data warehouse on Staten Island last month and walked out with eight tapes packed…
District slow to respond to breach
Melissa Nix reports: A document with the Social Security numbers of more than 500 Elk Grove Unified School District employees was lost by a district employee more than a month ago, according to Mary Deutsch, president of the California School Employee Association local in Elk Grove. Deutsch said the district was slow in responding to…
Western Oklahoma State College alerts library users of data breach
The Associated Press is reporting that about 1,500 users of the college’s library may have had their Social Security numbers and other personal information exposed because of a computer breach that occurred on November 11, but wasn’t discovered until February 18. No details of the breach have been provided yet. (Thanks to Wilma of the…