The Blotter
The News, Blogs, and Whispers Involving Privacy, or Lack-There-Of
The Week of Sunday, May 19, 2013
Orlando, N.Y. criminals stole millions in tax refund fraud
2013-03-23 - Orlando Sentinel
...with Social Security numbers who don't pay federal taxes if they are living on the island. IRS officials have made identity theft a top priority and spent the last two years cracking down on identity theft rings across the country. Authorities busted a New... Via DayLife
ID theft biggest fraud threat, says Cifas
2013-01-22 - ComputerWeekly.com
...identities. Account takeover fraud, where a fraudster gains access to and hijacks the running of an account through the theft of security details rocketed by 53% compared with the previous year to 38,428 incidents. Personal details are stolen by using various... Via DayLife
Some student loan borrowers subject of identity theft in wake of data loss, lawyer says
2013-01-19 - Canada.com
...his office to become part of the class-action lawsuit are people who have reported being the victim of some form of identity theft, although it isn’t clear if that’s a result of a missing external hard drive containing the personal information, including social... Via DayLife
Victim of identity theft? Expect a long wait for your tax refund
2013-01-10 - CNN/Money
...setup is effective because each group has a specific specialty. It also said it has improved its procedures for stopping identity theft, and is dedicating an increasing number of resources to the problem -- including nearly tripling the number of employees... Via DayLife
S.C. did too little to protect against ID theft
2013-01-05 - HeraldOnline.com
...it really understands the risk this breach presents. Initially, one year of credit monitoring was offered, even though identity theft can cover a multitude of areas (medical, financial, criminal, employment, tax, etc.) over a person's lifetime; since then,... Via DayLife
IRS Proposes Truncated Taxpayer Identification Numbers to Curb Identity Theft
2013-01-05 - Accounting Today
...Taxpayers in 2012). The IRS has also enhanced the use of Identity Protection Personal Identification Numbers for identity theft victims. In 2011 the IRS protected $1.4 billion in refunds from being erroneously sent to identity thieves, according to the IRS... Via DayLife
About The Blotter
The Data Loss Database doesn't include every breach we hear about in the database. We mostly go by a set of criteria, but also gut instinct. While some breaches involve the release of personal information, many are simply not a breach that could reasonably lead to identity theft. Also, some breaches affect so few people that they are more or less petty crime. Lastly, if we can't tie an organization to a breach, we're reluctant to add it as an incident in the main database. For news items and others, we now have "The Blotter".
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Card Info-Stealing Skimmers Are "All Over" IE
2012-12-08 - NBC Los Angeles
...is his girlfriend, said Stringer, who is assigned to the gang team at Rancho Cucamonga Station but has been working on identity theft cases. Criminals who install skimmers at gas stations pull up to a pump, typically in a van, blocking the view of attendants,...
Nationwide Security Breach Raises Priority of IT Security
2012-12-05 - Insurance & Technology
...assistance, including offering credit monitoring and identity theft protection for those impacted with $1 million in free identity theft insurance coverage with no deductible. Nationwide has acknowledged that the breach affected people in all 50 states, and...
IRS Employee Accused of Identity Theft
2012-07-10 - Forbes
...efforts to protect taxpayers from identity theft. I?m guessing that IRS didn?t expect to have to protect taxpayers from identity theft from its own employees. However, that?s exactly what federal investigators allege happened in . An Orlando television station,...
Zeus returns: FBI warns of 'Gameover' ID-theft malware
2012-01-10 - ZDNet
...defeating common methods of user authentication employed by financial institutions. A new variant of the notorious Zeus identity-theft Trojan is making the rounds and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) says it is capable of defeating common methods of...
Human Resources Canada faces 4 lawsuits over lost data
2013-01-22 - CBC News
...10,000 students took out OSAP loans during that time. Lindsay Gyori is a former student from Windsor and worries about identity theft. "I have no control over who that person is or what that person might do with my information, so it is alarming," she said.... Via DayLife
Is identity theft insurance worth the cost?
2013-01-20 - Louisville Courier-Journal
...recommend it. Melissa Mottley, sergeant of the financial crimes squad of Louisville Metro Police, said her unit had 452 identity theft cases in 2012, compared to 459 in 2011 and 435 in 2010. Nationwide, the Federal Trade Commission recorded 250,854 complaints... Via DayLife
Identity theft victims wait longer for refund
2013-01-12 - FOX 19 News Cincinnati
...of identity theft? Expect a long wait for your tax refund. (Source: CNN) Federal regulators say they are ordering a comprehensive review of the critical systems of Boeing's 787s, the aircraft maker's newest and most technologically advanced plane, after a... Via DayLife
2013-01-10 - Motley Fool
...of health care. They wouldn't ask. Ten million credit cards get left in bars every week. There's $220 billion of credit card theft every year. There's a trillion dollars' worth of fraud and vice in the health care business, etc. I think all of that is ripe... Via DayLife
Everett police bust massive ID theft ring
2013-01-05 - KomoNews.com
...and the The United States Secret Service. Snohomish County Prosecutors say the defendants defrauded at least 100 people through identity and bank account theft. Everett police say it was an intricate group. "Runners and collectors and then the organizers of... Via DayLife
SC House Lawmakers Say Computer Security, Health Care Top Issues
2013-01-04 - CBS-WSPA News Channel 7
...Security. Democrats want the state to provide a form with tax returns to give the state authority to sign up taxpayers for identity theft insurance, instead of requiring taxpayers to sign up for the service themselves. They also want an identity theft hotline... Via DayLife
Breach Types:
- Disposal Computer | Disposal Document | Disposal Tape | Disposal Drive
- Disposal Mobile | Email | Fax | Fraud Se
- Hack | Lost Computer | Lost Document | Lost Drive
- Lost Laptop | Lost Media | Lost Mobile | Lost Tape
- Missing Document | Missing Drive | Missing Laptop | Missing Media
- Seizure | Skimming | Snail Mail | Snooping
- Stolen Computer | Stolen Document | Stolen Drive | Stolen Laptop
- Stolen Media | Stolen Mobile | Stolen Tape | Unknown
- Virus | Web |
