Posts Tagged ‘identity fraud’

Stolen Print Documents With PII Found On Crook; Otherwise UCM Would Not Have Known The Reports Were Stolen

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Late last week one of my alma maters, the University of Central Missouri, reported that two printed computer reports containing 7000 students’ names, social security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, and birthdates were stolen from somewhere on the campus.

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Stolen Print Documents With PII Found On Crook; Otherwise UCM Would Not Have Known The Reports Were Stolen

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Late last week one of my alma maters, the University of Central Missouri, reported that two printed computer reports containing 7000 students’ names, social security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, and birthdates were stolen from somewhere on the campus.

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Insider Threat Examples & 7th HIPAA Criminal Conviction

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Yesterday I read about the 7th criminal conviction and sentencing that has been given under HIPAA, “Woman gets 14 months in ID theft case.”

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TJX Breach Sentence: Man Gets 5 Years in Prison and Must Pay $600,000 Restitution; Is It Enough?

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

On September 13, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announced Irving Escobar, the alleged leader of a Florida fraud ring that used stolen credit card information linked to the TJX, data breach was sentenced to five years in prison and must pay nearly $600,000 in restitution.

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Identity Theft Example: It’s Not All About Going On Spending Sprees; And A Really Bad Texas Bill

Monday, March 12th, 2007

In January I blogged about how at least 220 illegal immigrants working for Swift and Company were charged with identity theft.
As a follow-up to that story, last Friday the first of the convictions was handed down.

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Identity Theft Examples: Used for Illegal Immigrants

Monday, January 8th, 2007

In the past month around 1,300 employees of Swift & Company were detained during immigrations raids in Iowa, Nebraska, texas, Utah, Minnesota and Colorado.
As many as 220 of those detained face identity theft charges.

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