Peter Passi reports: More than 55,000 Duluth residents will receive letters in the next few days informing them that voter registration lists and other personal information may have been exposed as a result of an email phishing expedition at city hall. The scam hit the Duluth city clerk’s office, where an email account was compromised….
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600,000 OPM data breach victims need to re-enroll in credit monitoring services
Nicole Orgrysko reports: Victims of the Office of Personnel Management’s cyber breach who enrolled in credit monitoring services with Winvale/CSID about 18 months ago will soon have to re-enroll for the same services with a new vendor. OPM will soon mail notification letters to roughly 600,000 people, whose coverage under Winvale expires Dec. 1, 2016, a…
NH: Hancock town clerk arrested for sharing private information
Cassidy Swanson reports: The town clerk for Hancock has been arrested for sharing a resident’s personal information, according to the attorney general’s office. Joan Joseph was arrested and charged with one count of violating RSA 260:14, the Driver Privacy Act. The act establishes that records from the Division of Motor Vehicles are confidential. According to…
Popular Texas restaurant under fire after dumpster discovery
Alex Achten reports: It was a startling surprise for neighbors who found papers containing social security numbers, bank accounts, and other personal information blowing across their yards over the weekend. We did some digging, and found out the papers came from inside a dumpster at a popular nearby restaurant. Frances Roberts lives across the street…
Man Charged In Scheme To Steal More Than $1.5 Million From A U.S. Financial Institution
On October 27, a complaint was unsealed charging Dwayne C. Hans, a United States citizen, with wire fraud, computer fraud, and money laundering. According to the complaint, between April 2016 and July 2016, the defendant masterminded a series of frauds against a U.S. financial institution in which he masqueraded as an authorized representative of that…
Lee Memorial Hospital patient plans lawsuit over privacy breach
Frank Gluck reports: A former patient of Lee Memorial Hospital says he will sue the health center after an employee photographed him recovering from life-threatening injuries from a motorcycle crash. The attorney for that patient, Dylan Meracle of Cape Coral, notified the hospital and its operator, Lee Health, of the pending lawsuit this week. In…