Bruce Kelly of Investment News has more on the recent LPL Financial breach reported previously here. Kelly reports that LPL’s chief risk officer, John McDermott, says that LPL advisers guilty of mishandling or losing client data face an escalating series of punitive measures — “starting with a formal reprimand, then fines and ultimately termination.” McDermott…
UK: Organs removed without consent after IT blunder
Patrick Hennessy and Laura Donnelly report: The records of 800,000 people were affected by an error that meant their wishes about the use of their organs after death were wrongly recorded. An investigation has found that 45 of those for whom wrong records were stored have since died – and in approximately 20 cases organs…
Six face charges in ID theft ring
From the Monterey County Herald: Six people have been charged with using stolen identities to run up tens of thousands of dollars in fraudulent charges in the San Francisco Bay Area. The defendants were arraigned Thursday in Santa Clara County Superior Court. They did not enter pleas. The state Attorney General’s Office says the defendants…
Cedar Falls Pita Pit Customers Experience Credit Card Fraud
Claire Kellett reports: Cedar Falls police are investigating an unusually high amount of credit card fraud just in the past few days. The department says isolated cases are common, but it is receiving enough reports to consider asking the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation for help. Police say this is affecting both debit cards and…
(update) Credit card fraud reports still growing
The Stillwater case keeps growing….. and in this installment, it seems that it’s less clear how the breach occurred than previously thought. Peter Cox reports: Police have taken nearly 200 reports from people affected by credit card numbers apparently stolen from the Mad Capper Bar and Restaurant in downtown Stillwater. Investigator Kyle Sykes, who is…
Hundreds Exposed to I-D Theft in Sparks Store Closing
Ed Pearce reports: The Hollywood Video store in the Baring Village Shopping Center like others in the chain is now closed, its shelves empty, but if you were a customer there and filled out a membership form that paperwork and all its information was left free for the taking out back when the store closed….