Parts of the report were redacted, indicated by x’s below. Executive Summary: The Office of Inspector General (OIG) performed a review of the Department of Education’s (Department) external web sites. This audit was conducted in accordance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) as enacted by Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002,…
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Bits n’ Pieces
In the justice system: Richard J. Berger has been sentenced to for 13 months and ordered to repay about $130,000 after admitting that he illegally accessed insurance company computers at The Hartford and Sunlife Financial in a scheme to steal annuity clients. More. Julia Caldwell and Jacqueline Colbert, both Taco Bell of Laurel employees, have…
IL: Confidential CPS Documents Found Dumped in Alley
Erin Mendez and Sean Leidigh of WGNTV report: Years of CPS [Chicago Public Schools] student’s confidential, sealed records somehow made their way to a Lakeview alley early this morning. “I came upon my dumpster, totally filled. See this box? Sped –special education records..Lakeview,” said Art Kuesel, who found the documents behind his home. Inside, he…
Eighteen charged in NY bank fraud, ID theft scheme
Reuters reports that 18 people have been indicted in New York City for operating a bank fraud and identity theft scheme that resulted in the cashing of more than 1,000 counterfeit checks at several large banks. The defendants are accused of obtaining bank customers’ personal data with the help of insiders who they recruited for…
ID theft lawsuit filed in China
Lawsuits in the U.S. are a dime a dozen, but here’s a lawsuit filed over an identity theft case in China that I linked to earlier this week: Luo Caixia, a student of Tianjin Normal University whose identity was stolen by her classmate to enter another university, has launched a lawsuit to demand compensation and…
D.C. Mistakenly Sends Out 2,400 Students’ Personal Data
Bill Turque of The Washington Post reports one of those email attachment errors that frankly, have been all too common. How about routinely sending a test email before sending the real one to check to see what people will be receiving? Would that be so darned hard to do? The District agency that handles college…