As an update to a story previously reported here, Holly Ramer of the Associated Press reports: Rep. Paul Hodes has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate and stop a processing glitch that linked U.S. numbers to those issued in three foreign countries and could be causing credit problems for his constituents. The problem—which mostly…
Category: Breaches
Farina Accused Of Misappropriating Confidential Student Info
Marcia Chambers reports: Denise Farina, the tenured teacher at the center of a rare public termination hearing, used her teacher’s pass code to take confidential information from a student data bank at the Mary T. Murphy Elementary School to give to her paralegal for use in her case — a violation of federal law, the…
CT: Governor Rell announces ID theft law
Governor M. Jodi Rell announced a new law [An Act Concerning Consumer Privacy and Identity Theft] which increases criminal penalties for identity theft and establishes a fund from forfeited assets to help individuals whose identity has been stolen will become effective on October 1st. […] The legislation makes numerous changes in existing laws relating to…
B.C. identity theft victims say they can’t get justice
Kathy Tomlinson reports: Two B.C. people who are victims of identity theft are speaking out in frustration with the justice system. Mark Gorst and Shannon Werry have ample evidence indicating who the thief is, but even so, RCMP have told them charges won’t be laid. “It’s frustrating … and there is a lot of anger,”…