Jared Serbu reports: The Defense Department is continuing its effort to move away from the use of Social Security numbers to identify service members, although full implementation of an alternative system of ID numbers designed to decrease identity theft will not happen until 2012. Last week, the Navy closed down one potential fraud magnet. Prior…
TX: Personnel records found dumped outside Plano library
Brad Watson reports about dozens of boxes containing sensitive information: “I picked up a notebook that was sitting on top, I flipped it over and saw pages and pages of Social Security numbers,” she said. “I got concerned.” Inside the cartons, News 8 reviewed hundreds of names, Social Security numbers, medical records, home addresses and…
UK: Angus Council sought to collect samples of children's DNA
Most stories about children or student privacy are covered on the “mother ship,” PogoWasRight.org, but when student privacy issues involve DNA collection, they may also be covered on this blog. The following is part of a series of news stories that has been addressing student surveillance and privacy in UK schools: Angus Council’s use of…
(update) CA: Fraud reports linked to Sierra Madre gas station top 175
This entry updates the incident previously noted at http://www.databreaches.net/?p=16054 Sierra Madre police officers have taken over 175 fraud reports linked to EVG Quality Gas station in recent days, officials said Monday. The first victim reported identity theft on Dec. 27 after using her credit card at the 50 S. Baldwin Avenue gas station, which has…
(update) FL: Panama City card fraud linked to Half Hitch Tackle
This entry updates a breach story previously covered at http://www.databreaches.net/?p=16029. WJHG/News7 reports: Panama City – Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen issued an update Monday in the investigation regarding the fraudulent use of debit and credit cards from multiple area credit unions and banks. […] Investigators have discovered that nearly all the victims have made transactions…
ITRC 2010 Breach Report
The Identity Theft Resource Center has issued its end of year press release. It includes some of the organization’s key findings and stresses the need for more information and mandated disclosures. Breach reports by sector can be found on their site as well as their chronology of the breaches they recorded for 2010: The Identity…