The following uses information from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey: A New York man today admitted his role as a leader of one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Jose Torres, a/k/a “Jose Quilestorres,” a/k/a “Carlos Jose Luis,” 47, of Bronx, N.Y., pleaded guilty before…
MI: Tax preparer leaves clients’ tax records behind in foreclosed home, but so did Treasury agents sent in to clean it out
Okay, this is bad. Ken Kolker reports: Federal agents raided a tax preparer’s former home and seized abandoned documents from decades of returns, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers — but they didn’t get it all, Target 8 discovered on Wednesday. Target 8 found thousands of pages of tax documents in a burn barrel…
NY: Buffet employee pleads guilty to identity theft
While the big cybercriminal gangs make headlines, it’s often the little local schemes that will cause you misery. WNYT reports: An employee of the Golden Town Buffet in Bethlehem has pleaded guilty to stealing the credit card information of some of his customers. Heng Li, 27, entered the plea in Albany County Court on Wednesday…
Washington State U. notifies employees and students that SSN and financial info were on stolen drives
Bill McKee of Daily News reported this breach last week: More than 300 employees, former employees and students at Washington State University are receiving letters in the mail informing them they may have had personal information compromised when hard drives were stolen from an on-campus office last month. WSU Assistant Police Chief Steve Hansen confirmed…
Update: About 6,700 ESB customers affected by Loyaltybuild data breach
Loyaltybuild really needs to get ahead of the story instead of allowing the media to leak out each new part of its breach. Now we learn that the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) in Ireland was also impacted. The Irish Times reports: The personal information of about 6,700 ESB customers is now known to have been…
PA: Local Doctor Sues After Electronic Billing Co. Loses Data (Updated)
Marty Griffin reports: Dr. Bhola Roy is a board certified internist. These days he spends hour after hour on his computer, ordered by Medicare to file all of his records electronically. “Medicare is mandating to us, we have to use electronic health records,” he said. That mandate went horribly wrong, when in a lawsuit, Dr….