University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has disclosed a data breach of one of its servers that exposed the identities of 163,000 women. The breach has exposed Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other sensitive information on the study participants.
The data was being collected as part of the Carolina Mammography Registry, a project [...]
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UNC Data Breach Exposed 163,000 Social Security Numbers
Veterans Beware of Identity Theft Scheme
Identity thieves are now targeting military veterans and pretending to work for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The identity thieves are telling the veterans that the VA is updating their prescription information and need their credit card information.
“America’s Veterans have become targets in an inexcusable scam that dishonors their service and misrepresents the Department built [...]
Senator Pushing for a Personal Data and Security Act
Senator Charles E. Schumer stated that identity thefts across Upstate New York have risen almost 25% in just the last year.Â
Schumer said “Identity theft is a scourge on hard working Americans, and it is a problem that is getting worse. There’s no uniform national standard for how companies should report identity theft to consumers, because the [...]
Man Guilty of Using Stolen Identities to Defraud Wal-Mart
A 30-year-old Sacramento man has pleaded guilty to defrauding Wal-Mart stores using identities stolen through phishing attacks. He targeted eBay and small financial institutions. Many of the victims were PayPal users. Police discovered thousands of stolen identities on his computer, together with incriminating chat logs, phishing site templates, counterfeit credit cards and a shotgun.Â
Tien Truong [...]
Missouri is the 45th State to Implement a Data Breach Notification Law
On July 9, Missouri became the 45th state to enact a data breach notification law. This leaves Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico and South Dakota as the only states without a breach-notification requirement. The Missouri law went into effect Aug. 28.
When a company experiences a data breach, consumers personal information, such as Social Security numbers [...]
New York CEO Admits He Stole His Employees’ Identities
A prominent Westchester County businessman has admitted that he stole his employees’ identities to secure loans for his failing computer firm.
He went to banks, such as M&T Bank in White Plains, Bank of America and Hudson United Bank to secure loans and lines of credits to shore up his failing business. But instead of putting [...]
