Seen at Karin Spaink’s blog: After requesting a directory of the services of city X, a citizen of that city was sent not that directory, but a file containing the names of the circa 2800 people living in that city who may not renew their passport or who have to hand in their passport. Reasons…
Utah’s identity theft protection law comes too late for 11 month old child
A timely reminder that ID theft can have significant medical consequences. Ronald Mortensen reports: In March 2010, the Utah state legislature passed SB251 which requires all employers with 15 or more employees to protect children from illegal alien driven, job-related identity theft by using a status verification system such as E-Verify. SB251 enters into effect…
Confidential medical records found in Chino Hills trash container after apparent error by movers
Jannise Johnson reports: Hundreds of confidential medical files were found in a trash container Monday by San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies. The files belonged to doctors Jayshree and Mahesh Vyas who operated a clinic on Chino Hills Parkway and were in the process of moving to a new office, according to a sheriff’s press release….
In: BPO employee held for data theft
A young computer engineer was nabbed by the company authorities for data theft from the company computer and uploading it on another data sharing site for future use. He was nabbed by city cyber cell officials on Saturday. According to cyber cell officials, they had received a complaint from Satellite police station officials where Anand…
ACH Fraud Sparks Another Suit
Linda McGlasson reports: In another round of bank vs. customer, a Maine business has sued its bank, alleging that the institution failed to prevent fraudulent ACH transactions totaling more than $500,000. Patco, a Sanford, Maine-based construction company, had its corporate bank account raided over a six-day period last May by cyber thieves who were able…
NHTSA’s Complaint Database Leaks Private Information Like A Sieve
Edward Niedermeyer reports: Our Canadian pal carquestions took a look through NHTSA’s public complaint database, and found four examples of personal information that NHTSA should have redacted but didn’t. You know, things like names, birth dates, social security numbers, addresses, VINs, and drivers license numbers. And he found those four after searching through “12 or…