Bear with me, folks, because this one is a bit confusing. I am looking at an undated letter to customers that Van Dyke’s Restorers sent out, but there is no attached report or cover letter to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office that has been posted online. Vermont’s site indicates a date of August 8,…
Burglary at SanDiegoFit.com office: computer with customer data stolen
Through their lawyers at Foley & Lardner, SanDiegoFit.com, an online women’s apparel site, reported that on August 30, there was a burglary at their locked, alarm-protected building that resulted in the theft of a computer containing customer data. In its notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office dated September 10, the company reported that…
Cardinal Health notifies employees and applicants of missing laptop
When a good samaritan contacted Ohio-based Cardinal Health in mid-June to tell them that a used laptop purchased on eBay contained company information, Cardinal Health recovered the laptop and began to investigate. Under their policies, data on decommissioned computers are to be securely deleted by their IT department and then securely destroyed by a vendor….
Woman charged in Tredyffrin ID theft
Richard Ilgenfritz reports: A Maryland woman is behind bars this week in Chester County on $25,000 bail in connection with an international ID-theft ring with tentacles that reached from the Main Line through Maryland to Canada, Ecuador, England, China and Vietnam. Police identified the suspect as Sheila Oleta Myers, 53, of the 6500 block of…
Confidential client data stolen from Guam financial firm
Nick Delgado reports: Advisors Unlimited controls at least $25 million in assets for their 1,000 clients. And according to company president Frank Salas, their Hagatna office was burglarized on September 11. Salas says several miscellaneous items were stolen, but the most important was an external hard drive containing confidential client information including financial and personal…
FBI arrests dozens in raid on massive N.J. bank-fraud ring
Joe Ryan reports: FBI and IRS agents swept across New Jersey this morning and arrested roughly 50 alleged members of a massive bank-fraud ring that authorities say hijacked identities of overseas workers to bilk financial institutions. Authorities say members of the ring used Social Security numbers from Asian immigrants who worked in American territories, including…