Merikay Wootton, 63, Lenexa, Kansas, has pleaded guilty to disclosing confidential information while she was an employee of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch said today. Wootton pleaded guilty to unlawfully disclosing confidential information from a government agency. In her plea, she admitted she was working as a loan officer for Columbian…
OH: Private papers found in trash
Ryan Gauthier reports: For several weeks, a mound of city documents containing Social Security numbers, phone numbers and carbon copies of checks filled a Dumpster at Smith Park, where they were accessible to anyone. The Journal received a tip that led to the discovery of countless junked records containing personal information for Middletown residents, along…
Stockton man sentenced for bank fraud, aggravated ID theft, stealing mail
Sai Samone Soulyalangsy, 26, of San Joaquin County, was sentenced in federal court this week to 39 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, and restitution of $39,471.03 for multiple felony bank fraud and identity theft charges. This case was the product of an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection…
Liberty in Action: First Private Lawsuit Challenging ObamaCare Filed in Mississippi
A privacy-themed lawsuit. K. Douglas Lee writes: Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel and I have filed a class action lawsuit today, Good Friday 2010, challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as “ObamaCare” and a variety of other less polite euphemisms. From the complaint: Moreover, compelling Plaintiffs to enter…
EDITORIAL: Obamacare's secret surveillance
From the editors of the Washington Times: Blog sites have been buzzing about the National Medical Device Registry, a new office in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that was created in the Obamacare reconciliation package. Concern centers on the registry’s authority to conduct “postmarket device surveillance activities on implantable medical devices,” including those that…
Unencrypted personal info of LPL Financial clients on stolen device
As I’ve noted in the past, LPL Financial has reported a number of breaches in the past few years, none of which seem to have been reported in the mainstream media. On March 9, the firm reported yet another breach. According to a letter sent by Marc Loewenthal, Senior Vice President and Chief Security/Privacy Officer…