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T-mobile customer data used in fraud; 5 indicted

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Dissent

A number of Michigan news sources such as the Detroit News are reporting that an indictment has been unsealed against five Detroit men who used T-Mobile USA records to find customers with good credit. They then allegedly opened accounts with HSBC to obtain credit that they used to purchase computers and other electronics from Hewlett…

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District says former employees will have to pay if they want credit monitoring (updated)

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Dissent

Zach Fridell reports that the Steamboat Springs School District is offering reduced price credit monitoring to about 900 former employees whose Social Security numbers were on laptop that was stolen last week. At least some former employees are unhappy with the offer, particularly since the district is picking up the tab for current employees. Although…

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Pointer: Heartland’s Lonely Quest For Reform

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Dissent

Rebecca Sausner has an article in Bank Technology News, in which Avivah Litan of Gartner is quoted as saying, “Visa’s next.” But the more interesting question, of course, is what’s next? …. Visa is sticking to its guns with the PCI standards. “…While no guarantee, maintaining compliance with the PCI DSS remains the best protection…

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National City Bank apologizes for misdelivered dividend tax statments

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Dissent

Law firm Prokauer Rose has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that its client, Developers Diversified Realty Corporation, became aware of a “potential security breach” on or about February 2nd. According to the report (pdf), National City Bank, one of DDR’s dividend disbursing agents, mailed some 1099-DIV tax forms on January 29th. In some…

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Rogue app ruins Facebook’s weekend

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Dissent

Social networks Facebook and MySpace were dealing with new security issues on Friday that could compromise personal information and communications from friends. […] One of the problems is that Facebook allows anybody to write an application, and third-party applications are not vetted before they are made available to the public. So, even as Facebook stamps…

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OK: City loses disk of account info

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Dissent

Keith Purtell  reports: Officials at the city of Muskogee recently discovered that a computer “zip” disk containing personal information has been in public circulation since 2000. The citizen who found the disk noticed the official city label and returned it. Late Friday afternoon, the city issued a press release saying they had discovered a “possible…

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