Jay Weaver provides an update with additional details on a breach involving Rodney St. Fleur, an employee of a Miami law firm who misused his access to LexisNexis database searches to steal over 20,000 individuals’ information for a tax refund fraud scheme. Weaver reports that in court, St. Fleur admitted that he had stolen the…
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FL: Broward man pleads guilty in massive identity theft (updated)
Wayne K. Roustan reports that a former employee of an unnamed North Miami law firm was involved in an ID theft/tax refund scheme: Rodney Saintfleur, 28, of West Park, plead to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government, one count of access device fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft, prosecutors said. Evidence…
Delayed breach notification letter from law firm raises more questions than it answers (updated)
Here’s another notification letter submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office that left me scratching my head. It’s from the law firm of Sprechman & Associates, P.A. in Miami, a firm that specializes in collections. My comments and questions are inserted in italics: Dear XXXXXX: I am writing to advise you that your personally identifiable information…